SEOUL, Feb. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Retro fever is sweeping the Korean box office. Following the smash-hit Japanese animation “Slam Dunk,” the remastered version of the movie “Titanic” is also enjoying strong popularity. “The First Slam Dunk,” an animated Japanese film based on popular comics from the 1990s, had attracted close to 3 million viewers [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The Japanese basketball comic book series “Slam Dunk” has sold over 1 million copies in South Korea on the back of the popularity of its animated film adaptation, its local publisher said Tuesday. The repackaged version of the book series by Takehiko Inoue has seen a resurgence in sales [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — “The First Slam Dunk” has become the third most-viewed animated Japanese film released in South Korea ever, data showed Tuesday. The film had gathered about 2.39 million admissions as of Monday to reach No. 3 on the list of the top-selling animated Japanese films in Korea of all time, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The Japanese basketball comic series “Slam Dunk” has seen a huge resurgence in sales in South Korea, boosted by the popularity of its animated film adaptation. About 600,000 copies of the repackaged version of the comic series have been sold since Jan. 4, when the animated film, “The First [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Sales of basketball merchandise have surged ever since “The First Slam Dunk,” a Japanese animated film based on the cartoon popular in the 1990s, hit the theaters. South Korean online shopping mall SSG.com saw its basketball-related sales from Jan. 11-18 jumped by 26 percent from last year for the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The theatrical version of “Slam Dunk,” a popular comic in the 1990s, is catching the hearts of Koreans in their 30s and 40s. Japanese basketball animation film “The First Slam Dunk” recorded a cumulative audience of 501,864 as of Wednesday, ranking second at the box office, according to the [...]