Tomorrow's Joe 2: The Movie (1981)
It has been six months since the tragic accident in Joe and Rikiishi's fight. Joe believes he has overcome 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.
Director:
Osamu Dezaki
Writer:
Osamu Dezaki
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Teruhiko Aoi as Joe Yabuki (voice) |
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Jūkei Fujioka as Danpei Tange |
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Toshiyuki Hosokawa as Toru rikiishi |
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Fumi Dan as Yoko shiraki |
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Shiro Kishibe as Monmoth nishi |
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Masumi Okada as Jose Mendosa |
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Joe Yamanaka as Carlos Rivera (voice) |
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Toshiko Fujita as |
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Toshio Furukawa as |
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Junko Hori as |
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Michihiro Ikemizu as |
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Hiroya Ishimaru as |
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Osamu Kato as |
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Kaneta Kimotsuki as |
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Hiroko Maruyama as |
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Tetsuo Mizushima as |
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Akira Murayama as |
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Gorō Naya as |
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Shigezo Sasaoka as |
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Fuyumi Shiraishi as |
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Hirotaka Suzuoki as |
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Yasuo Tanaka as |
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Mikio Terashima as |
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Noriko Tsukase as |
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Kenji Utsumi as |
| Camera | Hirokata Takahashi | Director of Photography |
| Directing | Osamu Dezaki | Director |
| Writing | Ikki Kajiwara | Writer |
| Art | Shichiro Kobayashi | Art Direction |
| Sound | Ichiro Araki | Music |
| Visual Effects | Ryutaro Nakamura | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Shinji Otsuka | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Koji Morimoto | Key Animation |
| Editing | Masatoshi Tsurubuchi | Editor |
| Visual Effects | Akio Sugino | Animation Director |
| Writing | Osamu Dezaki | Screenplay |
| Writing | Tetsuya Chiba | Author |
| Production | Ikki Kajiwara | Executive Producer |
| Sound | Takayuki Inoue | Original Music Composer |
