The film won Animation of the Year at the 46th annual Japan Academy Film Prizes.
Netflix announced on Twitter/X on Sunday that it will begin streaming The First Slam Dunk, the anime film of Takehiko Inoue’s Slam Dunk basketball manga, in the United States on August 25.
The film opened in Japan in December 2022, and 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.