AKAI

By Eigoro AKAI

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Sport - Completed 2022

Trail of a legendary boxer known now as an actor reviving from a mortal injury.

    • Year of production
    • 2022
    • Genres
    • Sport, Documentary
    • Countries
    • JAPAN
    • Languages
    • JAPANESE
    • Duration
    • 88 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Eigoro AKAI
    • Synopsis
    • Hidekazu Akai is an actor and a TV personality beloved by generations of Japanese, yet many people today don’t know his career began as a boxer in 1980, racking up a record of 19 wins (16 by knockout) and 2 losses while winning over the country with his indomitable spirit. AKAI is a documentary film about that period directed by Eigoro Akai, a boxer himself, U.S.-trained filmmaker and the actual son of Hidekazu Akai. The documentary follows Akai’s overnight rise to stardom as a boxer to frustrating loss and his battle back from an injury that had only a 20% survival rate.