Name: Aim for the Ace! The Movie
Genre: Animation, Drama
Released: 1979-09-08
Duration: 88 min
Rating: 9.5
Cast: Makoto Kousaka, Masako Ikeda, Kōji Nakata, Katsuji Mori, Masako Sugaya

1979·Animation·1h 28m

9.5

★

High school freshman Hiromi joins the tennis club because of her admiration for Ryuzaki. Ryuzaki is a senior, who's the best tennis player on the team and also nicknamed "Ochōfujin", ("Madame Butterfly"), because of her elegance on the tennis court. However, the new coach, Jin Munakata, wants the inexperienced Hiromi to play in a forthcoming tournament.

Directed by Osamu Dezaki

sports

tennis

anime

Trailer

IMDB

N/A

Letterboxd

3.6 / 5

Cast

Makoto Kousaka

Hiromi Oka (voice)

Masako Ikeda

Reika Ryuuzaki (voice)

Kōji Nakata

Jin Munakata (voice)

Katsuji Mori

Takayuki Todou (voice)

Masako Sugaya

Maki Aikawa (voice)

Gorō Naya

Chairman Ryûzaki (voice)

Kazuko Yanaga

Ranko Midorikawa (voice)

Kazuyuki Sogabe

Takashi Chiba (voice)

Gara Takashima

(voice)

Kazue Komiya

Kyoko Otowa (voice)

Seiko Nakano

(voice)

Hidetoshi Nakamura

(voice)

Crew

Osamu Dezaki

Director

Manabu Ohashi

Key Animation

Shichiro Kobayashi

Art Direction

Popular Reviews

1 review

unlucky

9.5★ · 07/01/25

unimaginably gorgeous. possibly one of the prettiest anime to have ever been made. also undeniably one of the most iconic, influential, and important shoujo and sports anime to exist. goddamn its good!!!!!

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