Full trailer for Tomohisa Yamashita(山下智久)'s "Ashita no Joe(あしたのジョー)"!

New full trailer for Ashita no Joe/あしたのジョー has been added to the official website for Fumihiko Sori’s upcoming live-action adaptation of Tetsuya Chiba and Asao Takamori classic boxing manga Ashita no Joe (Tomorrow’s Joe). The original manga was serialized from 1968-1973 and was later adapted to an anime series and movie.

25-year-old Tomohisa Yamashita(山下智久) of NEWS stars as a troubled youth who is trained in the art of boxing by a man named Dampei Tange (Teruyuki Kagawa). During a temporary stint in prison, he meets a former boxing prodigy named Toru Rikiishi (Yusuke Iseya) and a fierce, but respectful rivalry develops between the two men. In the manga, their battles eventually inspired several other inmates to try their hands at boxing, leading to various match-ups of boxers with vastly different skills and weaknesses which required shifts in fight strategy. However, the film focuses mainly on the initial rivalry that defined the series.

Toho will be releasing “Ashita no Joe” in Japan on February 11, 2011.

Full Trailer - Ashita no Joe [Live-action]

Source: nipponcinema.com