Kozue doesn't just want to win volleyball games. She's chasing something that requires her to become a different person every time she levels up, and the show doesn't pretend that transformation is clean. The higher she climbs toward the national team, the more she has to shed who she was to get there. By the time she reaches the international stage, success has already cost her something she didn't know she was paying for. This hits hardest if you've ever realized that the dream you're chasing might destroy the person who started chasing it.

Kozue lives and breathes volleyball. A keen high school player, she dreams of earning a place on Japan's national team. This 1970 film is the first recap movie of the Attack No.1 television series and condenses its opening six episodes. Across the full story, Kozue works her way up one level at a time, from her school district league toward the national finals and eventually the international championship. The higher and faster she rises, though, the more she runs into the darker side of success: expectations set too high, vanity, and jealousy. The result is a sports drama about ambition and what winning can cost.