Fighting Spirit: Champion Road
Hajime no ippo - Champion road
2003, Film, 90 min, Action, Animation, Comedy, Japanese, Japan, MoviePedia score 69
Makunouchi Ippo is the new Featherweight champion of Japan and is now ready for his first title defense. His opponent, the former Jr. Featherweight champion and a medical student, Sanada Kazuki. In addition to this feud, Sanada is being coached by Kamogawa's former rival, Hama Dankichi. What makes things worse is that Sanada works at the same hospital where Kumi is a nurse at and everybody at the hospital wants Sanada to win. Not only does Ippo have to defend his title, he has to reclaim his love.
Directed by Satoshi Nishimura
Cast
- Kôhei Kiyasu as Ippo Makunouchi
- Kenji Utsumi as Genji Kamogawa
- Seizô Katô as Dankichi Hama
- Koichi Yamadera as Kazuki Sanada
- Rikiya Koyama as Mamoru Takamura
- Wataru Takagi as Masaru Aoki
- Keiji Fujiwara as Tatsuya Kimura
- Sanae Kobayashi as Kumi Mashiba
- Toshihiko Nakajima as Haruhiko Yagi
- Mitsuaki Madono as Masahiko Umezawa
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