Sports films are back in demand in Korea, with Shin Yeon-shick’s “One Win”, Lee Byeong-heon’s follow-up to his massively successful “Extreme Job”, “Dream”, starring Park Seo-joon and Lee Ji-eun and the upcoming “Count” starring Jin Sun-kyu being but three titles coming soon in the genre. Yet another name that can be added to the list is “Rebound” by Jang Hang-jun, which takes on the popular sport of basketball.
Synopsis
Joong-Ang High School was once renowned for its high ranked basketball team, but as the years pass and victories grow fewer, the school’s social worker Kang Yang-hyeon who was a former minor league baseball player, becomes the head coach. Left over talent refuses to play under an inexperienced coach, leaving Coach Kang to pull together a ragtag team of sports misfits. The team is pushed to their limits, but one final obstacle threatens to destroy what little hope was left,...
Synopsis
Joong-Ang High School was once renowned for its high ranked basketball team, but as the years pass and victories grow fewer, the school’s social worker Kang Yang-hyeon who was a former minor league baseball player, becomes the head coach. Left over talent refuses to play under an inexperienced coach, leaving Coach Kang to pull together a ragtag team of sports misfits. The team is pushed to their limits, but one final obstacle threatens to destroy what little hope was left,...
- 3/3/2023
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
An underdog sports team of ragtag losers needs to play an incredibly important game and against all odds manages to put up a decent fight, And on top of that the journey solves the personal problems of several team members. Sound familiar? It should, because there are literally dozens of such films about. Feel free to find an older example than 1976's The Bad News Bears or, a bit more adult, 1974's The Mean Machine, but let's all agree that the formula is at least almost half a century old. Korean director Shin Yeon-shick has now made his own entry in this genre with One Win, and it had its world première at this year's International Film Festival Rotterdam. In One Win we follow volleyball...
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- 1/31/2023
- Screen Anarchy
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