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Ping Pong

2002 · 114 min

A warm, earnest sports drama about friendship and finding your own drive, with a gentle pace and quietly emotional payoff.

Directed by
Fumihiko Sori
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Tagline
Enter the hero!
Overview
As children, the introverted Smile was being bullied by a gang of kids until the brash Peco comes by and chases all of them them away. Peco then takes Smile under his wings and teaches him how to play the game of ping pong. From there a life long best friend relationship comes into existence between these two polar opposite kids.

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Directed by
Fumihiko Sori
Genres
Comedy, Drama
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Tone
  • earneststrength 3 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • upliftingstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • friendship
  • coming-of-age
  • identity
  • ambition
  • sport
Places
  • school
  • small town
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action4
Horror0
Humour4
Realism7
Romance1
Tension5
Darkness3
Complexity4
Emotional weight6

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Genres
comedy, drama
Directed by
Fumihiko Sori
Written by
Kankuro Kudo
Starring
Yosuke Kubozuka, Arata Iura, Sam Lee, Shidou Nakamura, Koji Ohkura, Naoto Takenaka, Mari Natsuki, Suzuki Matsuo
Music
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Cinematography
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Runtime
114 min
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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