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Director:

Seung-wan Ryoo

Writer:

Seung-wan Ryoo (writer)

Contact:

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Release Date:

1 April 2005 (South Korea) more

Genre:

Drama | Sport more

Awards:

3 wins more

User Comments:

A fight for dignity more (8 total)


Cast

  (Credited cast)
Min-sik Choi ... Gang Tae-shik
Seung-beom Ryu ... Yoo Sang-hwan
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Kil-Kang Ahn ... Head warden
Hie-bong Byeon ... Sang-hwan's coach
Ju-bong Gi ... Sang-hwan's father
Ho-jin Jeon ... Sang-chul
Byeong-ok Kim ... Detective
Won-hie Lim ... Won-tae
Mun-hee Na ... Sang-hwan's grandma
Dal-su Oh ... Yong-dae
Hye-rin Seo ... Sun-ju (Tae-shik's wife)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:

Crying Fist (International: English title)
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Runtime:

South Korea:134 min | USA:123 min (2005 New York Asian Film Festival) | Australia:134 min

Country:

South Korea

Language:

Korean

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1 more

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Filming Locations:

South Korea


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18 out of 19 people found the following comment useful.
A fight for dignity, 23 June 2005
10/10
Author: spgun from South Korea

Boxing is used in this movie as the main plot, but this is not a Rocky episode and the protagonists do not fight for glory, fame or wealth. The climax match is just for the domestic rookie contest title and even a win would not improve the life of either Kang or Ryu that much. Boxing has long been dying as a professional sports anyway, at least in Korea.

So what these two main characters fight for? They are just trying to regain the minimum dignity as a human being, the last desperate effort to climb up from the deepest bottom of their existence. Therefore, you know, sometimes who wins is not so important.

This film was not a big hit when it was released to Korean theaters, and no wonder it was as the majority of movie consumers are happy youngsters.

Many of them think this is just another tear-jerking melodrama. It is not, I guarantee, but you would not be able to appreciate the real thing unless you have once gone through your own hell in the life. I cried with Ryu at the end of the movie, I felt his sorrow and happiness so real just as they were mine, it was mentally painful.

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