Champion Joe - Production & Contact Info

Champion Joe (1980)
Not Rated
153 min | Animation, Action, Drama

Champion Joe (1980)

Not Rated

153 min | Animation, Action, Drama

While serving his sentence in a Tokyo juvenile detention center, a wandering orphaned slum-dog enters the world of professional boxing after befriending an incarcerated pugilistic prodigy.

Directors

Yoichiro Fukuda | Yasuharu Hasebe | Tetsuya Chiba | Osamu Dezaki

Writers

Ikki Kajiwara (manga) (as Asao Takamori) | Tetsuya Chiba (manga) | Masaru Baba (screenplay) | Yoichiro Fukuda (screenplay)

Producer

Hisao Masuda

Composers

Kunihiko Suzuki | Takeo Watanabe

Cinematographers

Akifumi Kumagai | Muneo Ueda

Editors

Takao Shirae | Akira Suzuki

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Updated Mar 8, 1980

Release date

Mar 8, 1980 (Japan)

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