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

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