Fighting Spirit: Champion Road (2003)

About This Movie

Fighting Spirit: Champion Road is a 2003 animation and action film directed by Satoshi Nishimura. Its leading cast includes Kohei Kiyasu, Rikiya Koyama and Kenji Utsumi. It runs for 1 hour 30 minutes. It belongs to the Hajime no Ippo Collection. Its original language is Japanese.

Synopsis

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.

Synopsis from TMDB.

Trailer

Hajime No Ippo Champion Road Fan Made Trailer · plays from YouTube

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)
• Ichiro Nagai Ginpachi Nekota (voice)
• Kenichi Ono Minoru Fujii (voice)
• Emi Shinohara Mari Iimura