Fighting Spirit: Champion Road (2003)

Overview · Where to watch · Cast & crew · Reviews

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.

• Released: 2003-06-25
• Genres: Animation, Action, Comedy, TV Movie
• Runtime: 1h 30m
• Status: Released
• TMDB rating: 6.9/10 from 74 votes

Directed by Satoshi Nishimura.

Top cast

• Kohei Kiyasu as Ippo Makunouchi (voice)
• Rikiya Koyama as Mamoru Takamura (voice)
• Kenji Utsumi as Genji Kamogawa (voice)
• Masaya Onosaka as Takeshi Sendo (voice)
• Tomokazu Seki as Ichirou Miyata (voice)
• Wataru Takagi as Masaru Aoki (voice)
• Masahiro Tanaka as Ryo Mashiba (voice)
• Keiji Fujiwara as Tatsuya Kimura (voice)
• Koichi Yamadera as Kazuki Sanada (voice)
• Sanae Kobayashi as Kumi Mashiba (voice)

Full cast & crew

Where to watch Fighting Spirit: Champion Road

• United States: stream on Crunchyroll Amazon Channel
• Canada: stream on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads

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