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Fighting Spirit: Champion Road (2003)
Directed by Satoshi Nishimura
Animation, Action, Comedy, TV Movie · 1h 30m
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.
Cast
Kohei Kiyasu
Ippo Makunouchi (voice)
Rikiya Koyama
Mamoru Takamura (voice)
Kenji Utsumi
Genji Kamogawa (voice)
Masaya Onosaka
Takeshi Sendo (voice)
Tomokazu Seki
Ichirou Miyata (voice)
Wataru Takagi
Masaru Aoki (voice)
M
Masahiro Tanaka
Ryo Mashiba (voice)
Keiji Fujiwara
Tatsuya Kimura (voice)
Koichi Yamadera
Kazuki Sanada (voice)
Sanae Kobayashi
Kumi Mashiba (voice)
Toshihiko Nakajima
Haruhiko Yagi (voice)
Mitsuaki Madono
Masahiko Umezawa (voice)
Crew
- Director
- Satoshi Nishimura
- Screenplay
- Kazuyuki Fudeyasu
- Director of Photography
- Takahiro Miyata
- Original Music Composer
- Tsuneo Imahori
- Producer
- Hiroshi Yamashita
Details
- Original title
- はじめの一歩 -Champion Road-
- Release date
- 2003-06-25
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Genres
- Animation, Action, Comedy, TV Movie
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- Madhouse, Geneon Entertainment