Forty years after leaving Japan for a boxing career in the U.S. that never panned out, Jin returns to restart his life with his old boxing buddies. When hotheaded young boxer Shogo asks for Jin’s help to get him back into the ring after an unfair loss, the two men decide to seize their final chance at glory. A boxing film so authentic that it inspired co-star Yokohama Ryusei to qualify as a pro boxer, Zeze Takahisa’s boxing drama is one of the veteran director’s most crowd-pleasing films thanks to the touching father-son bond at its core.
Takahisa Zeze
Director
Koichi Sato
Jinichi Hirooka
Ryusei Yokohama
Shougo Kuroki
Kanna Hashimoto
Kanako Hirooka
Masataka Kubota
Toshio Nakanishi
Tomoko Yamaguchi
Reiko Sanada
Show Aikawa
Jirou Fujiwara
Tsurutaro Kataoka
Kenzo Sase
Ryota Bando
Shun Otsuka
Shinichiro Matsuura
Yuji Yamashita
Shogen
Gunji
Maki Sakai
Kazumi Kuroki
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