HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle

"Let's play a game that can't be repeated."

2024 1h 24m JA

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7.8

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Shoyo Hinata joins Karasuno High's volleyball club to be like his idol, a former Karasuno player known as the 'Little Giant'. But Hinata soon learns that he must team up with his middle school nemesis, Tobio Kageyama. Their clashing styles form a surprising weapon, but can their newfound teamwork defeat their rival Nekoma High in the highly anticipated 'Dumpster Battle', the long awaited ultimate showdown between two opposing underdog teams?

“Let's play a game that can't be repeated.”

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Cast

Ayumu Murase
Shoyo Hinata (voice)
Kaito Ishikawa
Tobio Kageyama (voice)
Yuki Kaji
Kenma Kozume (voice)
Yuichi Nakamura
Tetsuro Kuroo (voice)
Satoshi Hino
Daichi Sawamura (voice)
Koki Uchiyama
Kei Tsukishima (voice)
Yuu Hayashi
Ryunosuke Tanaka (voice)
Nobuhiko Okamoto
Yu Nishinoya (voice)

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Susumu Mitsunaka
Writers: Susumu Mitsunaka, Susumu Mitsunaka, Shinsaku Sasaki
Languages: Japanese
Countries: Japan

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RUNTIME

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84 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.

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MONEY

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Grossed $100M — a 20.1× return. The kind of profit studios chase for a decade.

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ERA

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Released 2 years ago.

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CINEMA

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Part of the "Haikyu!! Final Arc Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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CAST

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207+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Susumu Mitsunaka, shot by Yumiko Nakata. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Yuki Hayashi. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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8 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Junichi Uematsu shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Susumu Mitsunaka directs. Yumiko Nakata behind the camera. Yuki Hayashi scores. Junichi Uematsu cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in Japan. Dialogue in Japanese.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

184 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.
2Grossed $100M — a 20.1× return. The kind of profit studios chase for a decade.
3Released 2 years ago.
4Part of the "Haikyu!! Final Arc Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
5207+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.
6Directed by Susumu Mitsunaka, shot by Yumiko Nakata. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
7Original score by Yuki Hayashi. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
8Editor Junichi Uematsu shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
9Ayumu Murase and Kaito Ishikawa and Yuki Kaji carry the top of the cast.
10Marketing tagline: "Let's play a game that can't be repeated.".
11IMDB entry: tt30476486 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
12Classified under 15 themes, including "high school", "sports", "training", "volleyball".
13Released under 14 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Yumiko Nakata
Original score: Yuki Hayashi
Editing: Junichi Uematsu
Runtime: 84 min · 1h 24m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $5,000,000
Box office: $100,255,784
Return: 2005% of budget
Original language: JA
Certification (US): PG-13
IMDB: HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle (2024)

Part of

Haikyu!! Final Arc Collection

A film series adapting the final arc of Haikyu!!

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CinemaSerf2024-06-01
★ 7/10
After an astonishing run of success in the Harutaka High School Volleyball championships, "Karasuno" school must now face their rivals from "Nekoma" and the film depicts, in almost real-time, the ebbs and flows of that game whilst providing us with a narrative of the characters in each team and of their relationships with each other in "peace time" - past and present. The animation of the game is lively and at times quite visceral. Each player has their set task within their own team - they must continually evolve their tactics on the court as each pushes the other to new standards, to move quicker or jump higher. One team is much more aggressive and forceful with the ball, the other much more adept at controlling the pace and hopefully frustrating errors from their opponents - and the exhausting dedication required to play as well as the emotional trials faced is well captured as the story reaches it's denouement. It's based on a series I haven't seen, but unlike many of it's contemporaries, this film provides for enough of the backstory via flashback and narration to give us enough information to be able to treat this more as a stand alone story within the confines of the match itself. The style of artwork is very two-dimensional with precious little effort gone into activating the crowd beyond the audio, but the close up nature of the facial and athletic imagery as well as the soundtrack give the thing quite an intensity and show just how team sports can be character-building and to an extent, even life affirming. Tough old game volleyball, too!
Vivekanandan KS2024-06-19
★ 5/10
The movie is too short and fast paced compared to the original work in manga and compared to all those previous matches in the anime. It felt like a recap movie than as a standalone movie. Disappointed a lot like any other Haikyuu fan. I wish it gets reanimated as a series. I highly suggest u to start read the manga first and see this movie as a recap. 😓😓 Disappointed in the studio as they didn't justify the manga.