Champ (Movie - 2011)

챔프 (Chaem-peu)

Screenplay by Kim Hwang-seong (김황성), Kim Yeong-seok (김영석), Lee Hwan-gyeong (이환경)

133min | Release date in South Korea : 2011/09/07

Two damaged souls race together for the race of their lifetime
Horse jockey Seung-ho loses his wife in a fatal car accident. The accident also leaves him practically blind. No longer able to work, he leads an aimless life with his little daughter. Things take turn for the worse when he loses all his savings after trying to cheat at the horse track and flees to a remote ranch in Jeju Island. There he meets a violent and limping horse Woo-bak and he trains the horse ready for race. Against all odds, Seung-ho and Woo-bak finishes first in the preliminaries but when Seung-ho’s blindness is discovered by the officials, they’re disqualified from the finals. Woo-bak rejects all other jockeys and direly awaits Seung-ho to come back. The limping horse and his blind jockey bet everything to race one last time.

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Cha Tae-hyun
차태현
As
Seung-ho
(승호)
Yoo Oh-sung
유오성
As
Horse Trainer Yoon
(윤조교사)
Park Ha-sun
박하선
As
Yoon-hee
(윤희)
Kim Soo-jung
김수정
As
Seung-ho's daughter, Ye-seung
(승호의 딸, 예승)
Park Won-sang
박원상
As
Horse Trainer Kim
(김조교사)
Baek Do-bin
백도빈
As
Seong-hyeon
(성현)

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Staff

Lee Hwan-gyeong (이환경)
Production department

Lee Dong-joon (이동준)
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Kang Seong-hoon-I (강성훈)
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Airing dates : 2011/09/07

South Korean Box Office
Source : www.cine21.com & www.kobis.or.kr

As of 2011.11.06 : 535,766 admissions (total)

As of 2011.10.16 : 534,469 admissions (total)

As of 2011.10.09 : 534,177 admissions (total)

As of 2011.10.02 : 532,370 admissions (total)

As of 2011.09.25 : 521,220 admissions (total)

As of 2011.09.18 : 471,909 admissions (total)

As of 2011.09.11 : 155,640 admissions (total)

As of 2011.09.04 : 25,670 admissions (total)

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this was touching. even better than the "lump of sugar"

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2011-12-10 01:57:13

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