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| Hangul | 역도산 |
| Hanja | 力道山 |
| RR | Yeokdosan |
| MR | Yŏkdosan |
| 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 | South Korea Japan |
| Language | Japanese Korean |
Rikidōzan (역도산, Yeokdosan) is a 2004 South Korean and Japanese 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 actual Japanese wrestlers Keiji Mutoh and 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 was not a box-office hit.
†denotes an actual professional wrestler
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