Rikidozan (film)

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Yeokdosan
Movie Poster
Directed by	Song Hae-sung
Produced by	Kim Sun-ah Haruo Umekawa
Written by	Song Hae-sung
Starring	Sol Kyung-gu Miki Nakatani Tatsuya Fuji Masato Hagiwara Masakatsu Funaki
Music by	Lee Jae-jin
Cinematography	Kim Hyeon-gu
Editing by	Park Gok-ji
Release date(s)	2004
Running time	137 min.
Country	Japan South Korea
Language	Japanese Korean
IMDb profile
Korean name
Hangul	역도산
Hanja	力道山
Revised Romanization	Yeokdosan
McCune-Reischauer	Yŏkdosan

Rikidōzan (역도산, Yeokdosan) is a 2004 South Korean film written and directed by Song Hae-seong. The film is based on the life of professional wrestler Rikidōzan and stars Sol Kyung-gu in the titular role. Also starring in the movie are Miki Nakatani, Tatsuya Fuji, and wrestling superstar Keiji Muto as well as MMA legend Masakatsu Funaki. The film won the South Korean film industry's Grand Bell Award for best directing and the cinematography by Kim Hyeon-gu but wasn't a box-office hit.

[edit] External links

• Rikidozan at the Internet Movie Database

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