AKAI

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.

AKAI is a documentary film about 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 directed by Eigoro Akai, the actual son of Hidekazu Akai.