Tomorrow's Joe 2

Tomorrow's Joe 2

112 mins | Drama, Action, Animation | July 18, 1981

It has been six months since the tragic accident in Joe and Rikiishi's fight. Joe believes he has overcomed Rikiishi's death and decides to make a comeback. Joe does make a successful comeback by scoring 5 KO's by body blows. Joe is then given a shot at the national title as a means by the boxing commission to put him down. The champion, Tiger Ozaki makes use of Joe's habits and ends up making Joe's corner throw in the towel. Joe is afraid to throw punches at the face because of what happened to Rikiishi. Youko, Joe's love interest and the owner of the gym where Rikiishi trained at recruits a world ranked boxer from Venezuela, Carlos Rivera, to get Joe back on his feet and pursue his boxing career to the regional and world ranks.

Tomorrow's Joe 2

112 mins | Drama, Action, Animation | July 18, 1981

Tomorrow's Joe 2
It has been six months since the tragic accident in Joe and Rikiishi's fight. Joe believes he has overcomed Rikiishi's death and decides to make a comeback. Joe does make a successful comeback by scoring 5 KO's by body blows. Joe is then given a shot at the national title as a means by the boxing commission to put him down. The champion, Tiger Ozaki makes use of Joe's habits and ends up making Joe's corner throw in the towel. Joe is afraid to throw punches at the face because of what happened to Rikiishi. Youko, Joe's love interest and the owner of the gym where Rikiishi trained at recruits a world ranked boxer from Venezuela, Carlos Rivera, to get Joe back on his feet and pursue his boxing career to the regional and world ranks.
IMDb rating 7.5
Producers Fuji Eiga Company, Studio Aoi, Sankyo Motion Picture Company
Original title 劇場版 あしたのジョー2
Directors Osamu Dezaki
Writers Tetsuya Chiba, Ikki Kajiwara

Cast

Teruhiko Aoi

as Joe Yabuki

Jûkei Fujioka

as Danpei Tange

Toshiyuki Hosokawa

as Toru rikiishi

Fumi Dan

as Yoko shiraki

Shiro Kishibe

as Monmoth nishi

Masumi Okada

as Jose Mendosa