Manse High School's "ruling fist" Yong-gaek (Kim Dong-wan) and his posse. One day, after an altercation on a crowded bus, the troublemakers beat up the members of the school's taekwondo team, once the pride of Manse High but since sunken in ignominy as a third-rate club. The members end up in the hospital, while Yong-gaek and his pals are thrown in jail. The only choices offered to the scalawag group are either to leave the school or to join the taekwondo team.
"Spin Kick" is a youth-oriented sports movie about taekwondo. Its themes are the favorite fare of sports comics like "Slam Dunk" and "H2": the dreams of youth, the overcoming of challenges, and the fight for preeminence. The cast includes such new-generation stars as Kim Dong-wan of the singing group Shinhwa and Hyeon Bin of MBC's sitcom "Nonstop 4", but unlike "Temptations of a Wolf" and "He was Cool", both of which open on the same day, it lacks a strong melodramatic flair. Although the movie features a "ruling fist" cha...|
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