The First Slam Dunk, the new anime film of Takehiko Inoue‘s Slam Dunk basketball manga, stayed at #1 for its fifth weekend. The film sold 276,000 tickets over the weekend and earned 362,069,750 yen (about US$2.70 million) from Friday to Sunday. The film has sold a total of 4.61 million tickets for a cumulative total of 6,274,474,330 yen (about US$46.8 million).
The film ranked at #1 in its opening weekend. The film sold 847,000 tickets and earned 1,295,808,780 yen (about US$9.50 million) over its opening weekend.
The film opened in Japan on December 3. The movie has IMAX screenings in 40 cinemas all over Japan, and Dolby Atmos screenings in 34 cinemas. The movie added Dolby Cinema screenings on December 10.
Inoue personally directed the film at Toei Animation and wrote the script. Among the listed staff members are character designer/animation director Yasuyuki Ebara (
