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Champion

2018 · 108 min

A warm, crowd-pleasing underdog sports story that mixes big-hearted family drama with playful arm-wrestling showdowns.

Directed by
Kim Yong-wan
Genres
Drama, Comedy
Starring
Don Lee, Kwon Yul, Han Ye-ri
Tagline
There's nothing he can't knock down.
Overview
A former arm-wrestling champion raised in the U.S. returns to South Korea for a tournament that could return him to glory, but he finds his life complicated by the appearance of the biological family he never knew.

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Directed by
Kim Yong-wan
Genres
Drama, Comedy
Starring
Don Lee, Kwon Yul, Han Ye-ri
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Tone
  • warmstrength 3 of 3
  • upliftingstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • family
  • found family
  • identity
  • friendship
  • sport
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action6
Horror0
Humour5
Realism7
Romance2
Tension4
Darkness3
Complexity3
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
drama, comedy
Directed by
Kim Yong-wan
Written by
Kim Yong-wan
Starring
Don Lee, Kwon Yul, Han Ye-ri, Choi Seung-hoon, Ok Ye-rin, Son Sook, John D. Michaels, Carson Allen
Music
Nam Dae-won
Cinematography
Yoo Ji-sun
Runtime
108 min
Country
Hong Kong, South Korea
Languages
English, Korean

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