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

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