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. ODEX later screened the film in Singapore and Malaysia on May 4, 2017, Philippines on May 17, 2017, Indonesia on May 17, 2017, and Vietnam on July 18, 2017. The film began streaming on Netflix on November 14, 2021, with an English dub.
Synopsis The U.S. street basketball team named came to Japan and played a friendly match with the Japanese team , 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 , to perform a revenge match against Jabberwock.
Voice cast Vorpal Swords CharacterVoice actor Japanese English Kenshō Ono Khoi Dao Yūki Ono Zeno Robinson Daisuke Ono Daman Mills Hiroshi Kamiya Aleks Le Junichi Suwabe Ben Diskin Kenichi Suzumura Robbie Daymond Ryohei Kimura Erik Scott Kimerer Chiwa Saito Abby Trott Fumiko Orikasa Xanthe Huynh Shinichiro Miki Keith Silverstein Kōsuke Toriumi Jonah Scott Yoshimasa Hosoya Alan Lee Tatsuhisa Suzuki Sean Chiplock
Jabberwock
Captain of the American basketball team Jabberwock, Gold has a two-faced personality. Outside the court, he was calm, polite, and even charming. However, as a player in court Gold is cruel and rude. Nash also seems to have a darker personality when he becomes serious, which can be seen when he revealed his "Belial Eye" to Akashi. Gold becomes even more arrogant, saying that even God cannot defeat it.
One of the members of the American basketball team Jabberwock. Arrogant and ignorant, Silver calls himself the "Almighty Me". He is also sociable, only to have a lot of interest in women. Silver will not care about the people around him, unless it is Gold Jr. will be the one who did it. He also tends to mock those whom he considers weak.
Production The ending theme song of this film is "Glorious Days" sung by Granrodeo.
Reception Box office Kuroko's Basketball The Movie: Last Game opened in Japan on March 18 on 91 screens. The company sold 124,000 tickets on the weekend for (about ). The film was ranked sixth in attendance on average per screen in its opening weekend, having been defeated by Pretty Cure Dream Stars! by Izumi Todo – which debuted the same week – and beat Sword Art Online The Movie: Ordinal Scale by Reki Kawahara as well as Your Name by Makoto Shinkai. As of May 15, 2017, the film has grossed a total of over from 752,856 admissions.
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. GSC Movies later wrote the apology statement that it was "greatly threatening" to ODEX, GSC Movies and Japanese film copyright holders.
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