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
Kenji Utsumi
Hirotaka Suzuoki
Gorō Naya
Hiroya Ishimaru
Kaneta Kimotsuki
Toshiko Fujita
Masumi Okada
Jose Mendosa
Fuyumi Shiraishi
Michihiro Ikemizu
Junko Hori
Toshiyuki Hosokawa
Toru rikiishi
Fumi Dan
Yoko shiraki
Teruhiko Aoi
Joe Yabuki (voice)
Mikio Terashima
Shigezo Sasaoka
Shiro Kishibe
Monmoth nishi
Hiroko Maruyama
Akira Murayama
Noriko Tsukase
Ichiro Araki
Jūkei Fujioka
Danpei Tange
Joe Yamanaka
Carlos Rivera (voice)
Osamu Kato
Tetsuo Mizushima
Yasuo Tanaka

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