Released in fall 2022! Regarding the theatrical version of "Slam Dunk Master", there is finally a new official public intelligence.
Can we see the bloody battle between Xiangbei vs Mountain King from the theater?
The movie version of "Slam Dunk Master"
Release date: Fall 2022
Official website: https://slamdunk-movie.jp
On August 13, after the tokyo Olympics, the release of the latest promotional video for the theatrical version of "Slam Dunk Master" reignited the sports fever of this summer.
In this 30-second promo, the name of Yuhiko Inoue first appears.
Following Yuhiko Inoue's name, the names of the members of the production team behind the scenes also appeared one by one.
However, as the drum beats of the background music become more and more burning, hand-painted classic Fivesomes of Northern Hunan Province: Sakuragi Hanamichi, Kaede Yasukawa, Tsuyoshi Akagi, Shou Mitsui, and Miyagi Yoshida also appear in the picture. I saw five people bending in a circle to cheer themselves on before boarding the pitch.
Immediately after, the English SLAM DUNK of "Slam Dunk Master" appeared.
However, the most anticipated message is placed at the end of the promotional video:
"Autumn 2022 Release"
The theatrical version of "Slam Dunk Master" is officially scheduled for fall 2022!
However, addicted students can watch the full version of the 30-second promotional video.
The first official announcement of the theatrical version of "Slam Dunk Master" occurred in January this year.
"[Slam Dunk] will be a movie!"
On January 7, 2021, the famous Japanese manga artist Yuhiko Inoue pushed such a Japanese update on his social account. Manga fans who can't read Japanese got this explosive news from the hashtag #slamdunkmovie that came with Yuhiko Inoue:
"Slam Dunk Master", it's time for a movie.
Yuhiko Inoue, 53, has once again lit a fire for basketball fans around the world.
January 2021, Inoue Takehiko's "Kansen"
However, due to operational errors, when Inoue first pushed this dynamic, he did not succeed in sending out the poster GIF of "Slam Dunk Master", and people only saw a pure pink background map. But a short text message is enough to make people excited.
Unwillingly, Yuhiko Inoue used the same text and added a picture to press the send button for the second time... But it wasn't until the third time that the GIF diagram was finally sent out in its entirety. The English name of "Slam Dunk" "Slam Dunk" appeared on the electronic screens of thousands of people in the form of hand-drawn animations.
Interestingly, the first two misplaced tweets were not deleted by Yuhiko Inoue, but were placed on the homepage along with the story that was eventually successfully pushed. So far, the cumulative number of likes on these three tweets has exceeded 500,000, and the number of retweets has exceeded 300,000.
How staggering is that number?
Taking the relevant tweets related to the 2020 NBA Lakers championship, LeBron James posted the championship trophy map for the first time after the game, with 70,000 likes and 10,000 forwards.
In fact, in the recent Tokyo Olympic Games 3x3 women's basketball field, we also heard the incomparably familiar theme song of "Slam Dunk Master" from the live broadcast of the stadium: "I want to say I love you out loud.".
Screenshot from "Slam Dunk Master" Theatrical Edition Fan Twitter "SLAM DUNK 2022"
In 2020, Slam Dunk Master has just celebrated its 30th birthday – this high school basketball-themed manga, serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump from 1990 to 1996, has so far sold more than 120 million copies in Japan.
At the same time, with the huge influence of animation going to sea, the influence of this anime work in the world can no longer be measured by any data: "Until the End of the World", which can be hummed by all post-80s and post-90s; Kamakura High School, which must go on pilgrimage when traveling to Japan; "Coach I want to play basketball", which has long been played badly; "The most glorious moment" that can always make people cry...
In the minds of a hundred people, there are a hundred reasons to love "Slam Dunk Master".
In the mid-1990s, Japan had a widely circulated ranking, that is, "Slam Dunk Master" was put together with "Soccer Boy" and "Baseball Hero", and called the three pinnacles of Japanese sports manga. However, to this day, "Soccer Boy" and "Baseball Hero" are still tirelessly launching various sequels/remakes, but "Slam Dunk Master", whose story has long been "over", is no less influential than these two works.
In particular, given the huge mass influence of football and baseball in Japan today, it is really hard to imagine that just by virtue of the manga story of a high school student, "Slam Dunk Master" created its own sports universe out of thin air, allowing the sport of basketball to take root in Japan and even throughout Asia.
When children in Europe and the United States often imagine themselves as Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant or LeBron James when they are playing, we absorb an endless stream of energy from the stories of Sakuragi Hanamichi and Kaede Kaede.
However, as soon as the news of the cinematization of "Slam Dunk Master" came out, it brought more questions: is the new work of "Movie" an animated version or a live-action version? Is it to condense the stories of the past, or to bring the national competition of the heart to the screen?
There are even many voices against "cinematization", but most of these voices come from those incredibly loyal "Slam Dunk Master" fans, who are a little worried that the film version has dropped the chain, but it has affected the status of this divine work.
It must be emphasized that in addition to speculation, the current information about the film is still very limited.
Even, including the name of the movie version, in fact, has not been officially determined.
Inoue Takehiko Ushi, "Kang-Takate" Official construction. However, the name of the movie "SLAM DUNK Slam Dunk" (title undecided) official".
"Title undecided" immediate intention "Undecided".
In addition, browsing the official website of the movie that is launched synchronously, the information also has only a title of SLAM DUNK, and the window displayed by the synchronization Twitter information.
Despite limited intelligence, we can still analyze some clues about the new work from the past information of "Slam Dunk Master" and Yuhiko Inoue's personal style.
First of all, in addition to the TV version of the animation that we are familiar with, "Slam Dunk Master" has launched 4 theatrical versions of the animation between 1994 and 1995, and the distributor is also Toei Company, which released the film version. In particular, it should be emphasized that the content of these four drama versions of the animation is a new animation plot, and none of them is the same as the TV version of the anime and manga.
Attached: All the information of the slam dunk master's past "theatrical version" (Source: https://zh.wikipedia.org/)
▋ "SLAM DUNK" dunk master
- Released on March 12, 1994, the film is 30 minutes long and directed by Nobutaka Nishizawa.
- The story of Shonbei playing a practice match with Takeen after losing to Lingnan in a practice match and before Miyagi and Mitsui appear.
◾Slam Dunk: Domination of the Whole Country! Sakuragi Hanamichi"(Kangyo Takate: Shokon nationwide!) Maki Hanamichi)
- Released on July 9, 1994, the film is 45 minutes long and directed by Toshihiko Ariki.
- The story is set in the story of Shonbei's 4th county competition and against the top 8 Tsunatake. On the one hand, the main characters such as Sendo, Uzumi, Hanami, Fujima, and Maki all appear in this theatrical version.
◾Slam Dunk Shohoku's Biggest Crisis! Burning Sakuragi Hanamichi" (Kangaki Takate: Shohoku's largest desk!) Fukitoshi-like Atsuki Hanamichi)
- Released on March 4, 1995, the film is 40 minutes long, directed by Hiroyuki Kakuto.
- The story of a practice match with Green Wind after Xiangbei participated in the final of the county competition and lost to Hainan Dafu High School.
◾Slam Dunk Barking Basketman Soul!! Hot Summer of Hanamichi and Nagarekawa (Kang-Takate: Roar Ball Soul!) Hanamichi Wayu River-like Scorching Summer)
- Released on July 15, 1995, the film is 40 minutes long, directed by Masayuki Amibi.
- The plot is set after Xiangbei participated in the final of the county competition and lost to Hainan Dafu High School.
- The central character of the film is Ichiro Mizusawa, a younger student of Kaede Junior High School in The Middle Ages. Therefore, unlike the first 3 films, the focus of the story is not on the competition, but on the human theater as the theme of the story.
Therefore, although the filmmakers have not revealed any news about the plot at present, following the style of the past drama version, we can boldly speculate that this newly released "Slam Dunk Master" movie version will also be a plot story that has not appeared in the TV animation version.
And this new plot, most likely will not be a story about the future life of Sakuragi Hanamichi. Because 17 years ago, Yuhiko Inoue himself had already put an "consummation" to this work.
In December 2004, in order to commemorate the cumulative sales of "Slam Dunk Master" exceeded 100 million copies, Inoue Yuhiko drew a chalkboard full of 23 classrooms in chalk on the blackboard of an abandoned middle school classroom in Kanagawa Prefecture (where the story of "Slam Dunk Master" is located), depicting the plot at the end of the manga version of "Slam Dunk Master", that is, 10 days after the Battle of Shonbei against The Mountain King.
In the work, although Xiangbei defeated the Mountain King, he was seriously injured and stopped in the round of 16 of the national competition. In the days that followed, Miyagi became the captain of Shonbei; Mitsui stayed behind to prepare for the winter tournament; Akagi, who missed Fukasawa Sports University, was still working with Kibuki to advance to college; Kaede Yasukawa, who was closest to entering professional basketball, was selected to join the Japanese junior team and planned to go to the United States in the future; and Sakuragi Hanamichi went to the beach to recuperate due to a serious back injury.
Finally, Sakuragi Hanamichi finished reading the letter from Haruko Akagi, and in the face of the doctor's inquiry, he said the iconic sentence: "Because I am a genius!"
The finale of "Slam Dunk Master", which was born this time full of performance art, is called "Ten Days Later".
A role in "Ten Days Later" of "Sinicization"
Three days after the exhibition of "Ten Days Later", Yuhiko Inoue silently erased the manga on the blackboard, drawing a real end to the story.
Yuhiko Inoue is stubborn, a great manga artist who is stubborn to the point of "never changing the drawn line", and it is hard to imagine that he would overturn his "ending" and continue the timeline of Slam Dunk Master.
More importantly, looking at his decades of comic book career, he always focuses on the character "itself" relative to the story. All he wanted to talk about was youth, blood and regret.
As a result, combining various factors and the voices of fans, the classic battle of the national competition Xiangbei against the mountain king became the plot that is most likely to appear in the theatrical version.
In particular, sakuragi Hanamichi, who appears in the 30-second promotional video with a "flat-headed" hairstyle, also gives this speculation a solid argument.
How classic is Shonbei's match against Mountain King?
I still remember that at the end of the manga version of Shonbei vs. Kokyo Yamano, Yuhiko Inoue didn't even use a single line of dialogue. In the full 40 pages, there are only different storyboarding close-ups: sweat, tears, passes, running positions, eye contact, physical confrontation, shooting shots... In an extremely rare way, he depicts the pure game of basketball. Wordlessness pushes the game to its climax, making the reader's heartbeat the only voice outside of this game.
Slam Dunk Master manga roll storyboard at a glance
At that time, how many people were in tears because of the regrettable defeat of the Xiangbei basketball team in the finale of "Slam Dunk Master"? Hirohiko Inoue tells us in a story: Youth is imperfect.
And now, when the theatrical version of "Slam Dunk Master" returns, no matter what kind of story Yuhiko Inoue brings us, we finally have the opportunity to let youth rekindle in the memory, finish this memory, and re-compose a dream about brothers, about basketball, about youth in the theater.
Enough，Enough Now
With Slam Dunk Master, we'll never end the world.