Action Animation Drama
It has been six months since the tragic accident in Joe and Rikiishi's fight. Joe believes he has overcome Rikiishi's death and decides to make a comeback. Joe does make a successful comeback by scoring 5 KO's by body blows. Joe is then given a shot at the national title as a means by the boxing commission to put him down. The champion, Tiger Ozaki makes use of Joe's habits and ends up making Joe's corner throw in the towel. Joe is afraid to throw punches at the face because of what happened to Rikiishi. Youko, Joe's love interest and the owner of the gym where Rikiishi trained at recruits a world ranked boxer from Venezuela, Carlos Rivera, to get Joe back on his feet and pursue his boxing career to the regional and world ranks.
Directed by
Osamu Dezaki
Written by
Ikki Kajiwara
Toshio Furukawa
Fumi Dan
Yoko shiraki
Shigezo Sasaoka
Akira Murayama
Ichiro Araki
Shiro Kishibe
Monmoth nishi
Junko Hori
Toshiyuki Hosokawa
Toru rikiishi
Toshiko Fujita
Hirotaka Suzuoki
Jūkei Fujioka
Danpei Tange
Hiroya Ishimaru
Gorō Naya
Hiroko Maruyama
Kaneta Kimotsuki
Joe Yamanaka
Carlos Rivera (voice)
Michihiro Ikemizu
Noriko Tsukase
Masumi Okada
Jose Mendosa
Teruhiko Aoi
Joe Yabuki (voice)
Fuyumi Shiraishi
Kenji Utsumi
Mikio Terashima
Osamu Kato
Tetsuo Mizushima
Yasuo Tanaka

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