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Champion Joe (1980)
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Original name: あしたのジョー 劇場版
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
An abridged remake of the first Ashita no Joe TV series, released in 1980 to provide back-story for the second TV series to new fans who were not familiar with the first TV series or the manga.
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, anime
Plot:
orphan, human spirit, athlete and trainer, follow your dream, rivalry, ambition, supportive spouse, contests and competitions, underdog, against the odds, downfall, going straight, hopes, athlete's life, urban ghetto life, urban ghetto, teenager, boxing, violence, tournament, delinquent, criminal
Time:
year 1980
Place:
japan, tokyo
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Most similar movies to Champion Joe
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out anime, captivating, exciting and shounen films with plots about rivalry, ambition, friendship, contests and competitions, tournament, athlete's life and high school mostly in Animation, Sport and Drama genres. Some movies like Champion Joe: Master of Martial Hearts (2008), Kuroko's Basketball: Last Game (2017), Fighting Spirit (2000), Haikyu!! (2014), Hoop Days (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min.
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Story:
Aya’s life takes a sadistic turn when she enters a girl-on-girl martial arts tournament. She’s out to prove she can take a pounding as well as the other knock-outs in this clandestine competition, and if she survives a series of fabric-shredding ...
Style:
anime, exciting, humorous, ecchi, serious
Plot:
hopes, follow your dream, rivalry, teaching the ways of the world, sport team, culture clash, self discovery, martial arts, platonic, contests and competitions, athlete and trainer, athlete's life ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Animation, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Shortly after the Inter-High of Kagami and Kuroko's second-year, a street basketball team from the USA called Team Jabberwock came to Japan to play a friendly match against a Japanese college-level street basketball team, Team Strky. Despite ...
Style:
anime, shounen, tense, captivating, light ...
Plot:
rivalry, friendship, contests and competitions, competition, ambition, youth, final showdown, teenager, hopes, lifestyle, family relations, follow your dream ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Ippo, the son of a fishing boat tour owner, takes up boxing to increase his confidence. Through intense training and willpower Ippo claims the Japanese featherweight title.
Style:
anime, captivating, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
boxing, athlete's life, youth, follow your dream, rise to the top, lifestyle, championship, ambition, athlete and trainer, tournament, kickass, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
72%
Genre: Animation, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A prequel to the 2013 Kyoto Animation series Free! which is an adaptation of light novel High☆Speed!
Style:
anime, inspirational, captivating, psychological, emotional
Audience:
teens
Plot:
swimming, school, sport team, contests and competitions, ambition, friendship, rivalry, follow your dream, tournament, youth, training, against the odds ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
69%
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan, Poland
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
Shōyō Hinata began playing volleyball after seeing the "small giants" who played the sport when he was in elementary school. He suffers a crushing defeat in his first and last tournament in middle school at the hands of his rival Tobio ...
Style:
anime, realistic, captivating, exciting, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
volleyball, rivalry, stubbornness, friendship, high school, friends, sport team, lgbtq, hopes, follow your dream, athlete's life, contests and competitions ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Animation, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
A defunct high school basketball team finds a new student and things may start looking up for them.
Style:
anime, captivating, inspirational, exciting, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
basketball team, teenage boy, basketball player, friendship, high school, teamwork, contests and competitions, tournament, hopes, rivalry, against the odds, lifestyle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
First Haikyuu!! recap movie.
Style:
anime, captivating, humorous, entertaining, motivational ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
volleyball, teamwork, rivalry, adaptation, school, team, sport team, high school, contests and competitions, athlete and trainer, ambition, professional rivalry ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Makunouchi Ippo is the new Featherweight champion of Japan and is now ready for his first title defense. His opponent, the former Jr. Featherweight champion and a medical student, Sanada Kazuki. In addition to this feud, Sanada is being coached by ...
Style:
anime, entertaining, captivating, humorous, intense ...
Plot:
boxing, rivalry, boxer, competition, determination, championship, boxing champion, competitor, fight, athlete's life, contests and competitions, champion ...
Place:
tokyo
Similarity:
52%
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Genre: Animation, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The third of three Kuroko no Basket compilation films.
Style:
anime, shounen, captivating, entertaining, compilation film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
basketball, rivalry, competition, tournament, basketball player, athlete's life, basketball team, athlete and trainer, professional rivalry, basketball coach, competitor, sport team ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Musical, Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 50 min.
Story:
When Larry goes out of town during production to help some needy kids, he runs into trouble. Frustrated, he calls Bob to say that he's giving up and coming home. Bob and "Lutfi" (a small cucumber sock puppet performed by Khalil the ...
Style:
computer animated, semi serious, feel good, humorous, parody ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
wrestling, rivalry, against the odds, friendship, contests and competitions, ambition, buddies, athlete and trainer, hopes, wrestler, anti hero, power relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, usa
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
Hino goes to a school that specialises in music and has two streams: the normal stream and the music stream, where the music students are regarded as the more elite. She was running late for her class one day when she saw a tiny fairy, who seemed ...
Style:
anime, serious, captivating, exciting, humorous ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hopes, teenage life, musician's life, youth, friendship, rivalry, contests and competitions, music, underdog, high school, artists and showbiz, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Animation, Drama, Sport, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
One day, Nagi Seishiro receives an invitation to the mysterious BLUE LOCK Project. What awaits him there is an encounter with the finest strikers assembled from across the country. Nagi's dream of becoming the best, alongside Mikage Reo, will ...
Style:
anime, shounen, captivating, intense, fast paced ...
Plot:
soccer, teamwork, football player, football team, football, teenager, young boy, teenage boy, talent, team, adolescence, athlete's life ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Initial D Battle Stage 2 summarizes the major street races from the Initial D: Fourth Stage. Two races that were previously seen only in the manga were animated specially for this OVA. The first race is Takahashi Keisuke vs. Smiley Sakai, and the ...
Style:
anime, captivating, entertaining, exciting, action packed ...
Plot:
rivalry, street racing, drifting, racecar driver, sports car, race, car race, sport team, ambition, competitor, sporting event, car ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Shirou Emiya finds himself an unwilling participant in a deadly competition where seven Mages summon heroic spirits as servants to duel each other to the death. They compete for the chance to make a wish from the Holy Grail, which has the power to ...
Style:
anime, exciting, captivating, suspense, tense ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
supernatural, contests and competitions, magic, rivalry, ambition, young heroes, mortal combat, danger, escapades, imaginary, wizards and magicians, curses spells and rituals ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Animation, Family, Sport
Country: South Korea, China, Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Curious little penguin Pororo and his friends accidentally cause an airplane to make an emergency landing in their home of Pororo Village. On the airplane are some turtles being shipped to Northpia to deliver ice sleds, or racing ice cars. ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, exciting, anime, captivating ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
contests and competitions, friendship, chases and races, rivalry, follow your dream, social relations, ambition, hopes, young heroes, penguins, tiger, underdog ...
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The second of three Kuroko no Basket compilation films.
Style:
anime, satirical, exciting, entertaining, tense ...
Plot:
basketball, basketball coach, basketball player, satire, rivalry, ambition, championship, competitor, athlete's life, athlete and trainer, teamwork, aspiration ...
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41%
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Country: Japan
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TV show
Story:
Two young wrestlers face each other in a recently revived underground wrestling organization, the Tiger's Lair, which destroyed the wrestling dojo they grew up in. One took over the training facilities of Naoto Date at the foot of Mount Fuji, ...
Style:
anime, captivating, uplifting, intense, inspirational ...
Plot:
wrestling, fight, follow your dream, pride and honor, ambition, rivalry, lifestyle, victory, life changing experience, rivals, athlete's life, determination ...
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Recap film focusing primarily on the match against Aoba Jouhsai from the second season.
Style:
disturbing, humorous, captivating, anime, shounen
Plot:
volleyball, competition, school club, training, rivalry, sport team, contests and competitions, high school life, ambition, showdown, teamwork, school ...
Similarity:
40%
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Genre: Animation, Action, Fantasy
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
In the city of Shinjuku, a conflict between a rouge Karas by the name of Eko and the "will of the city" rage in a conflict for dominance. A Karas brought about to fight the rouge has fallen, leaving the city and its inhabitants ...
Style:
anime, suspenseful, stylized, exciting, epic ...
Plot:
vengeance, heroes, battles, danger, escapades, rivalry, curses spells and rituals, imaginary, destruction, demon, gangster, custody ...
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Lex 'El Animal' Vargas is a promising Portorican boxer in Queens, but lacks ambition to aim for the big career. That changes after his brother Paulie is accidentally shot dead by a teenager in an amateur hold-up on their late dad's ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, suspense
Plot:
athlete's life, human spirit, lifestyle, social differences, against the odds, tough heroes, boxing, follow your dream, ambition, athlete and trainer, contests and competitions, rivalry ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
Follows Ren Mihashi, who had previously excelled as his middle school baseball team's ace pitcher, due to his grandfather's connections as its manager. As he graduates to high school, whose baseball team his grandfather does not manage, he ...
Style:
anime, realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good
Plot:
baseball, baseball team, prodigy, rivalry, sport team, self discovery, contests and competitions, lifestyle, youth, high school, against the odds, underdog ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
In the story, Kagami Taiga has just enrolled into Seirin High School when he meets Kuroko Tetsuya of the school's basketball team. Kuroko happens to be the shadowy sixth member of the legendary Generation of Miracles basketball team. Together, ...
Style:
anime, captivating, exciting, tense, uplifting ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
basketball, friendship, contests and competitions, youth, rivalry, hopes, teenager, lifestyle, sport competition, ambition, champion, adaptation ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Second Haikyuu!! recap movie.
Style:
anime, entertaining, captivating, humorous, intense ...
Plot:
teamwork, rivalry, school club, volleyball, high school, adaptation, sport team, contests and competitions, professional sports, tournament, competition, schoolboy ...
Similarity:
37%
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Genre: Animation, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
First of three compilation films of Kuroko no Basket.
Style:
anime, shounen, action packed, entertaining, captivating ...
Plot:
basketball, rivalry, tournament, competition, basketball player, contests and competitions, athlete's life, basketball coach, basketball team, rivals, competitor, showdown ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
The passionate story of an elementary school student whose thoughts and dreams revolve almost entirely around the love of soccer. 11-year-old Tsubasa Oozora started playing football at a very young age, and while it was mostly just a recreational ...
Style:
anime, captivating, exciting, disturbing, inspirational ...
Plot:
soccer, football team, football player, football, competition, tournament, coming of age, team, teenager, school, follow your dream, direction and purpose ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Animation, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A special sequel anime for Free! to screen in Fall 2017.
Style:
anime, feel good, entertaining, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot:
slice of life, friendship, swimming, graduation, high school, school club, teamwork, teenager, athlete's life, teenage life, friends, coming of age ...
Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Animation, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 65 min.
Story:
The regular players from Seigaku participates in an exhibition game aboard a cruise ship. However, they discover that the event is being run by a corrupt millionaire heavily involved in illegal gambling and betting, who demands that they lose the ...
Style:
anime, visually appealing, captivating, shounen, exciting ...
Plot:
tennis, rivalry, youth, dishonesty, brother brother relationship, competition, happy ending, lifestyle, ocean, ocean liner, storm, illegal gambling ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
japan
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
A desolate land stretches out from the city of poverty. A motorcycle speeds recklessly, blowing clouds of sand and dust. The rider is the protagonist of this story – he has neither a name nor a past. All he has is his ring name, “Junk Dog” and ...
Style:
anime, bleak, stylized, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
boxing, fight, violence, underdog, tournament, rivalry, boxing match, contests and competitions, slice of life, distopia, trial, underground ...
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Animation, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
Giant Killing follows a ragtag bunch from East Tokyo who are struggling in Japan's top football league. Nearing the bottom, they have lost 5 matches in a row which hasn't done much to team morale. Even with the fan's turning their ...
Style:
anime, entertaining, exciting, captivating, seinen
Plot:
football player, football team, soccer, high school football, football, soccer coach, sport team, professional sports, soccer match, playing football, athlete and trainer, ambition ...
Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
Prince of Tennis follows the story of a 12 year old boy Ryoma Echizen who won four consecutive titles in the American Junior Tennis tournaments. He's an amazing tennis player and is considered a prodigy. He moved from America to Japan and ...
Style:
anime, stylized, semi serious, humorous, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
prodigy, contests and competitions, tennis, friendship, athlete's life, youth, lifestyle, school, high school life, friends, power relations, superhuman powers ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
32%
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