Champ (film)

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Champ

Theatrical poster
Hangul
Revised Romanization Champeu
McCune–Reischauer Ch‘aemp‘ŭ
Directed by Lee Hwan-Kyung
Produced by Kim Min-Ki
Lee Myung-Sook
Seo Joon-Hyuk
Lee Sang-Hoon
Jung Jae-Seung
Lim Hee-Chul
Written by Lee Hwan-Kyung
Kim Young-Suk
Kim Hwang-Sung
Starring Cha Tae-hyun
Park Ha-sun
Cinematography Lee Sang-Gak
Distributed by Showbox/Mediaplex
Release dates
  • September 7, 2011 (2011-09-07)
Running time 133 minutes
Country South Korea
Language Korean
Box office $3,232,193[1]

Champ (Hangul: 챔프; RR: Champeu; MR: Ch‘aemp‘ŭ) is 2011 South Korean film is about a former horse jockey who became blind after losing his wife in an accident. Now got receives a second chance with help of his daughter.

Plot

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.

Cast

  • Cha Tae-hyun ... Seung-ho
  • Kim Soo-jung .... Ye-seung
  • Yu Oh-seong... Trainer Yoon
  • Park Ha-sun ... Yoon-hee
  • Park Won-sang ... Trainer Kim
  • Baek Do-bin ... Sung-hyun
  • Kim Kwang-gyu ... Kwang-gyu
  • Yoon Hee-sook ... In-Kwon
  • Kim Ki-cheon ... Director Park
  • Kim Sang-ho ... Sheriff
  • Son Byeong-Ok ... Gganjookyi
  • Lee Yun-hee ... Seung-ho's wife
  • Baek Yoon-sik ... president of horse riding association

Box office

The film was released in South Korea on September 7, 2011.[2] The film grossed $765,803 its opening weekend ranking at #6 with 112,513 admissions.[3][4] In total the film grossed $3,232,193 and 535,766 had admissions nationwide.[5][6]

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