Based on the long running (1958 to 1992) gag manga by Sonoyama Shunji. The manga won the sixth Japan Cartoonists Association Award in 1977.
Mitsunobu Hiroyoshi
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Inaba Junior High School's baseball team has been defeated miserably since the senior members left. Because of their poor results, the players are suspended from games and are almost forced to break up. Ironically, however, this hardship makes them band tighter together and intensifies their desire to play. They practice hard in the hope of regaining the respect of the other…
Tsubasa Ohzora's life has been saved by a football as he were 2 years old. Since then his best friend was the football, soccer is his life. As a 12-year old he and his mother are moving to Nankatsu (his father is captain on a ship and therefore on the sea most of the time). There he finds a soccer team to play in and many new friends. That's the beginning of the successful…
A young boy uses his scientific skills to fight enemies.
The second movie is about the return match between the All Europe Soccer Team and Japan. At the beginning Hyuga denies to join the team due to his 3. defeat against Nankatsu. He practices hard with Kyra to perfect his Tiger Shot. Misaki can't come and Wakabayashi isn't allowed to play for he normally plays for a German team. With those lacks and Schneider's (the European's…
The movie is about a match between an "All Europe Soccer Team" and an "All Japan Soccer Team" and takes place at the end of the first TV series. When the Japanese team arrives in Europe they meet incredible players with skills and strength they never had to face before.
Source: ANN