Fighting Spirit: Champion Road (Espíritu de lucha: Champion Road) 20 years old

Fighting Spirit: Champion Road

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.

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Fighting Spirit: Champion Road Cast

Name Character
Tomokazu Seki He was 30, now 51 years old as Ichirou Miyata
Keiji Fujiwara He was 38, now 59 years old as Tatsuya Kimura
Kenji Utsumi He was 65, 75 years old when he died as Genji Kamogawa
Wataru Takagi He was 36, now 57 years old as Masaru Aoki
Rikiya Koyama He was 39, now 60 years old as Mamoru Takamura
Masaya Onosaka He was 38, now 59 years old as Takeshi Sendo
Masahiro Tanaka He was 14, now 35 years old as Ryo Mashiba

Fighting Spirit: Champion Road Crew

Name Department
Satoshi Nishimura as Director. Directing
Fighting Spirit: Champion Road poster
Fighting Spirit: Champion Road (20 years)

  • Release day: Wednesday, June 25, 2003
  • Runtime: 90 minutes