Fighting Spirit: Champion Road

Name: Fighting Spirit: Champion Road
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, TV Movie
Released: 2003-06-25
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 7.3
Cast: Kohei Kiyasu, Rikiya Koyama, Kenji Utsumi, Masaya Onosaka, Tomokazu Seki

2003·Animation·1h 30m

7.3

★

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

sports

based on manga

shounen

boxing

anime

tv special

Trailer

IMDB

N/A

Letterboxd

3.9 / 5

Where to Watch

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)

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)

Popular Reviews

21 reviews

Thog

A fight between a doctor with a perfect understanding of the human body and a man with the most faith in his trainer

Sanada seemed like he would be the victor on paper, and that was his fatal flaw. No technical knowledge in the world can overcome the bond between trainer and boxer.

Ippo would go on to defend his title seven more times before going to the world stage.

Belén

7.0★ · 07/23/23

La verdad es que le pongo más punteo porque me gusta la serie y porque Ippo se me hace muy tierno jaja pero realmente la película no estuvo muy buena, si fue como un capítulo mega extenso, pero un cspitulo más ordinario, pensé que nos iban a mostrar otras cosas que no suelen poner en las series, así como más de su relación con Kumi o algo más diferente. De ahí no sé, pudo estar mejor.

Me gustaría ver el día en el que ippo no termine tan hecho lata xd

sedran

7.0★ · 03/08/26

taoflPRO

8.0★ · 02/25/26

Lewis Westwood

8.0★ · 01/10/26

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