Kuroko's Basketball The Movie: Last Game

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 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
Japanese movie poster
Japanese name
Kanji	劇場版 黒子のバスケ LAST GAME
Transcriptions Revised Hepburn Gekijō-ban Kuroko no Basuke Rasuto Gēmu
Directed by	Shunsuke Tada
Written by	Noboru Takagi Tadatoshi Fujimaki
Based on	Kuroko’s Basketball by Tadatoshi Fujimaki
Starring	Kenshō Ono Yūki Ono Chiwa Saito Daisuke Ono Hikaru Midorikawa Hiroshi Kamiya Junichi Suwabe Kenichi Suzumura Ryohei Kimura Tetsu Inada Fumiko Orikasa Shinichiro Miki Kōsuke Toriumi Yoshimasa Hosoya Tatsuhisa Suzuki
Cinematography	Eiji Arai
Edited by	Junichi Uematsu
Music by	Yoshihiro Ike
Production company	Production I.G
Distributed by	Shochiku
Release date	March 18, 2017 (2017-03-18)
Running time	90 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese
Box office	¥1 billion^[1]

Synopsis

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.

Voice cast

Vorpal Swords

Character	Voice actor
	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

Jabberwock

Nash Gold Jr. (ナッシュ・ゴールド・Jr., Nasshu Gōrudo Jr.)

Voiced by: Hikaru Midorikawa^[7] (Japanese); David Matranga (English)

Captain of the American basketball team Jabberwock. Gold has a two-faced personality. Outside the court he was calm, polite and even charming. But as a player in court he is cruel, rude and perhaps the most arrogant in the team. In addition, he seems to have a darker personality when he becomes serious. This can be seen when he revealed his "Belial Eye" to Akashi. Gold becomes even more arrogant, saying that even God can not defeat it.

Jason Silver (ジェイソン・シルバー, Jeison Shirubā)

Voiced by: Tetsu Inada^[7] (Japanese); Kane Jungbluth-Murry (English)

One of the members of the American basketball team Jabberwock. Silver is arrogant and ignorant, and he calls himself the "Almighty Me." Along with that he is also very talkative, just to have a lot of interest in women. He will not care about the people around him, unless it's Gold Jr. will be the one who did it. Silver also tends to mock those whom he considers weak.

Production

The ending theme song of this movie is "Glorious days" sung by GRANRODEO.^[8][9]

Reception

Box office

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]

Controversy

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]

References

1. "Kuroko's Basketball: Last Game Anime Film Tops 1 Billion Yen". Anime News Network. May 16, 2017. Retrieved March 18, 2018.
2. "Kuroko's Basketball Last Game Anime Film Reveals Teaser Visual, Story, Returning Staff". Anime News Network. September 3, 2016. Retrieved September 6, 2020.
3. "Odex to Screen Kuroko's Basketball Last Game, 21st Detective Conan Films in 5 Southeast Asian Countries". Anime News Network. April 10, 2017. Retrieved April 14, 2021.
4. "Kuroko's Basketball Last Game Film Gets Fan Screening in Philippines on Sunday". Anime News Network. May 5, 2017. Retrieved May 9, 2021.
5. "Kuroko's Basketball Last Game, 21st Detective Conan Film Indonesia, Vietnam Opening Dates Revealed". Anime News Network. April 19, 2017. Retrieved April 25, 2021.
6. Adriana Hazra (October 24, 2021). "Netflix U.S. Adds Kuroko's Basketball: Last Game, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind Anime in November". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 25, 2021.
7. "Hikaru Midorikawa, Tetsu Inada Join Cast of Kuroko's Basketball Last Game Anime Film". December 3, 2016. Retrieved December 7, 2020.
8. "GRANRODEO Performs Theme Song for Kuroko's Basketball Last Game Film". Anime News Network. November 24, 2016. Retrieved March 22, 2017.
9. "Kuroko's Basketball Last Game Film's Teaser Previews Granrodeo's Theme Song". Anime News Network. January 21, 2017. Retrieved March 22, 2017.
10. "Precure Dream Stars! Film Opens at #5, but Kuroko's Basketball Earns More". Anime News Network. March 22, 2017. Retrieved March 22, 2017.
11. Mikikazu Komatsu (March 22, 2017). "Japan Box Office: "PreCure Dream Stars!" Takes 5th Place in Its Opening Weekend". Crunchyroll. Retrieved December 5, 2017.
12. "GSC Movies Issues Statement Regarding Alleged Unauthorized Filming of Kuroko's Basketball Movie". Anime News Network. May 18, 2017. Retrieved May 22, 2021.
13. "Apology from GSC MOVIES". Facebook. May 18, 2017. Retrieved May 22, 2021.

External links

• Official website (in Japanese)
• Kuroko's Basketball The Movie: Last Game (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
• Kuroko's Basketball The Movie: Last Game at IMDb