The Champion
19571h 37mNo ratings yet
- Action
- Drama
- Romance
- Music
Overview
Eikichi Yamashiro, who is a former contender for the boxing title, works as a manager at a Club Champion owned by his fiancé Natsuko’s father. He lost a title match five years ago as he was besotted by Natsuko, but Eikichi actually cannot give up the dream of the championship. One day, he meets Shuntaro Fuma, who is a punk kid but a promising boxer, and realizes the dream that he himself could never fulfill. Then, they together start to train with the aim of the title. Mari Shiraki is an up-and-coming ballerina under the patronage of Eikichi as well. Eikichi forbids Shuntaro and Mari to be romantically involved with someone during their training, however, they start to go on a date.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- May 1, 1957
- Original language
- Japanese
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- Nikkatsu Corporation
- Cast
- Mie Kitahara,Taiji Tonoyama,Yōko Minamida,Masao Shimizu,Yūjirō Ishihara,Hyōe Enoki,Kazuo Kinugasa,Mamoru Yokoyama,Seijiro Takano,Hisae Urashimaand 10 more
- Director
- Umetsugu Inoue
- Producer
- Shizuo Sakagami
- Cinematography
- Kazumi Iwasa
- Music
- Taichiro Kosugi
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0237733