Takehiko Inoue, “The First Slam Dunk,” courtesy of GKIDS/Toei Animation. While the premise remained the same — the high school championship game between underdog Shohoku and perennial champs ...

Takehiko Inoue’s “The First Slam Dunk” isn’t exactly the first movie ever made about a scrappy high school basketball team struggling to overcome their shared differences and personal ...

Marking Inoue’s directorial debut, The First Slam Dunk follows Shohoku High School’s “speedster” point guard, Ryota Miyagi, who always plays with brains and lightning speed, running ...

Recent reports from Japan reveal that Hiromichi Inoue, the 19-year-old son of Slam Dunk creator Takehiko Inoue, has joined Kagoshima Rebnise, a basketball team competing in Japan’s B.League ...

Takehiko Inoue’s “The First Slam Dunk” isn’t exactly the first movie ever made about a scrappy high school basketball team struggling to overcome their shared differences and personal demons in time ...

It was an extraordinary challenge for Takehiko Inoue, the creator of the all-time favorite manga, “Slam Dunk,” to turn the basketball-themed sports story into the animated film, “The First ...

Slam Dunk is a Japanese anime series based on the manga by Takehiko Inoue. The show follows Hanamichi Sakuragi, a delinquent high school student who joins the basketball team to impress a girl.

Indie distributor GKIDS acquired North American distribution rights for The First Slam Dunk from Japanese animation studio Toei Animation.. Based on Takehiko Inoue’s best-selling manga Slam Dunk ...

The latest addition to Takehiko Inoue’s Slam Dunk manga series, The First Slam Dunk intersperses some of the best animated basketball scenes of all time with compelling character drama.