Kuroko's Basketball The Movie: Last Game (Japanese: 劇場版 黒子のバスケ LAST GAME, Hepburn: Gekijō-ban Kuroko no Basuke Rasuto Gēmu) is a 2017 Japanese animated sports film produced by Production I.G and distributed by Shochiku. This is the first film in the Kuroko's Basketball franchise, created by Tadatoshi Fujimaki. It was released in Japanese cinemas on March 18, 2017.[2] ODEX later screened the film in Singapore and Malaysia on May 4, 2017,[3] Philippines on May 17, 2017,[4] Indonesia on May 17, 2017, and Vietnam on July 18, 2017.[5] The film began streaming on Netflix on November 15, 2021, with an English dub.[6]
Kuroko's Basketball The Movie: Last Game | |||||
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Kanji | 劇場版 黒子のバスケ LAST GAME | ||||
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Directed by | Shunsuke Tada | ||||
Written by | Noboru Takagi Tadatoshi Fujimaki | ||||
Based on | Kuroko’s Basketball by Tadatoshi Fujimaki | ||||
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Cinematography | Eiji Arai | ||||
Edited by | Junichi Uematsu | ||||
Music by | Yoshihiro Ike | ||||
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Distributed by | Shochiku | ||||
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Running time | 90 minutes | ||||
Country | Japan | ||||
Language | Japanese | ||||
Box office | ¥1 billion[1] |
The U.S. street basketball team named Jabberwock (ジャバウォック, Jabauokku) came to Japan and played a friendly match with the Japanese team (Strky (スターキー, Sutākī)), but after the Japanese team suffered a crushing defeat, Jabberwock team members began to mock the Japanese basketball. Their comments infuriated Riko's father, so he assembled a team of five Generation of Miracles members plus Tetsuya Kuroko and Taiga Kagami, called Vorpal Swords (ヴォルパル・ソード, Vu~oruparu Sōdo), to perform a Revenge match (リベンジ • マッチ, Ribenji matchi) against Jabberwock.
Character | Voice actor | |
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Japanese | English | |
Tetsuya Kuroko (黒子 テツヤ, Kuroko Tetsuya) | Kenshō Ono | Khoi Dao |
Taiga Kagami (火神 大我, Kagami Taiga) | Yūki Ono | Zeno Robinson |
Shintarō Midorima (緑間 真太郎, Midorima Shintarō) | Daisuke Ono | Daman Mills |
Seijūrō Akashi (赤司 征十郎, Akashi Seijūrō) | Hiroshi Kamiya | Aleks Le |
Daiki Aomine (青峰 大輝, Aomine Daiki) | Junichi Suwabe | Ben Diskin |
Atsushi Murasakibara (紫原 敦, Murasakibara Atsushi) | Kenichi Suzumura | Robbie Daymond |
Ryōta Kise (黄瀬 涼太, Kise Ryōta) | Ryohei Kimura | Erik Scott Kimerer |
Riko Aida (相田 リコ, Aida Riko) | Chiwa Saito | Abby Trott |
Satsuki Momoi (桃井 さつき, Momoi Satsuki) | Fumiko Orikasa | Xanthe Huynh |
Kagetora Aida (相田 景虎, Aida Kagetora) | Shinichiro Miki | Keith Silverstein |
Kousuke Wakamatsu (若松 孝輔, Wakamatsu Kousuke) | Kōsuke Toriumi | Jonah Scott |
Junpei Hyūga (日向 順平, Hyūga Junpei) | Yoshimasa Hosoya | Alan Lee |
Kazunari Takao (高尾 和成, Takao Kazunari) | Tatsuhisa Suzuki | Sean Chiplock |
The ending theme song of this movie is "Glorious days" sung by GRANRODEO.[8][9]
The film opened in Japan on March 18 on 91 screens. The company sold 124,000 tickets on the weekend for ¥190 million (about US$1.7 million). The film was ranked 6th in attendance on average per screen in its opening weekend having been defeated by Pretty Cure Dream Stars! by Izumi Todo who debuted the same week and beat Sword Art Online The Movie: Ordinal Scale by Reki Kawahara and Your Name by Makoto Shinkai.[10][11] As of May 15, 2017 the film has grossed a total of over ¥1 billion from 752,856 admissions.[1]
On May 17, 2017, GSC Movies posted that the parts of the film were supposedly recorded during the Malaysian screening time, and posted online.[12] GSC Movies later wrote the apology statement that it was "greatly threatening" to ODEX, GSC Movies and Japanese film copyright holders.[13]