Character

Jun Uozumi

Jun Uozumi in Slam Dunk (1993), played by Yukimasa Kishino.

Jun Uozumi captains Shoyo High's basketball team, a towering, heavily built center whose sheer physical presence anchors the paint. Calm and businesslike, he doesn't showboat or trash-talk — he simply plants himself under the basket and makes life miserable for anyone trying to score inside. His game is about mass and positioning, not flash.

Slam Dunk loves contrasting basketball philosophies, and Uozumi is the purest expression of brute-force post play against Shohoku's speed and instinct. Kishino's voice gives him a low, unbothered steadiness that makes his strength feel inevitable rather than showy — he's the wall the story needs Sakuragi to learn how to move around, not through.

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Slam Dunk1993