Break Through!

Break Through!
Poster

Japanese	パッチギ!
Hepburn	Pacchigi!
Directed by	Kazuyuki Izutsu
Starring	Erika Sawajiri Shun Shioya Yōko Maki
Cinematography	Hideo Yamamoto
Release dates	January 22, 2005 (2005-01-22)
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Break Through! (パッチギ!, Pacchigi!) is a 2005 Japanese film directed by Kazuyuki Izutsu.

Plot

Romeo, A.K.A. Kosuke Matsuyama (Shun Shioya), is a second-year high school student. A nice, normal, nonviolent type, he suddenly finds himself in the middle of a rampaging crowd of Korean boys, outraged by insults perpetrated by several of his idiotic class-mates on two Korean girls. He makes a narrow escape, but soon after, he and his best bud Yoshio (Keisuke Koide) are sent by their home-room teacher to invite the Korean students to a friendly soccer game as a way of restoring the peace.

Trembling like black-uniformed leaves, they enter enemy territory, where Kosuke encounters a doll-faced, but serious-looking girl (Erika Sawajiri) playing a Korean folk song, "Imjin River," on a flute. He and Yoshio are also nearly lynched by her older brother Lee Ang Son (Sosuke Takaoka) and his gang, but he is already smitten—and eager to learn that haunting tune.

The story concentrates on Kosuke's struggle to not only master a song, but win the love of a girl who seems to live in an alien, hostile world. Meanwhile, Ang Son and his crew are street-fighting with Japanese toughs as if playing a contact sport, with one side scoring hits, then the other. He is macho to a fault, but when he learns that his sweet-heart (Kyoko Yanagihara) is pregnant and determined to keep the baby, he faces a choice that makes him quail: grow up or cop out.

Awards

48th Blue Ribbon Awards^[1]

Won: Best Film

27th Yokohama Film Festival^[2]

Won: Best Film
Won: Best Director - Kazuyuki Izutsu
Won: Best Cinematography - Hideo Yamamoto
Won: Best Newcomer - Erika Sawajiri and Shun Shioya

References

↑ ブルーリボン賞ヒストリー (in Japanese). Cinema Hochi. Retrieved 2010-03-31.
↑ 第２７回ヨコハマ映画祭２００５年日本映画個人賞 (in Japanese). Yokohama Film Festival. Retrieved 2010-01-16.

Films directed by Kazuyuki Izutsu

Miyuki (1983) Inujini seshi mono (1986) Uchū no hōsoku (1990) Boys Be Ambitious (1996) Get Up! (2003) Break Through! (2005)

Awards

Blue Ribbon Award for Best Film

Until We Meet Again (1950)
Repast (1951)
Lightning (1952)
An Inlet of Muddy Water (1953)
Twenty-Four Eyes (1954)
Floating Clouds (1955)
Mahiru no ankoku (1956)
The Rice People (1957)
The Hidden Fortress (1958)
Kiku to Isamu (1959)
Her Brother (1960)
Pigs and Battleships (1961)
Foundry Town (1962)
The Insect Woman (1963)
Woman in the Dunes (1964)
Red Beard (1965)
Shiroi Kyotō (1966)
The Fossil (1974)
Lullaby of the Earth (1976)
The Yellow Handkerchief (1977)
Third Base (1978)
Vengeance Is Mine (1979)
Kagemusha (1980)
Muddy River (1981)
Fall Guy (1982)
Tokyo Trial (1983)
MacArthur's Children (1984)
Ran (1985)
House of Wedlock (1986)
A Taxing Woman (1987)
The Silk Road (1988)
Dotsuitarunen (1989)
Childhood Days (1990)
A Scene at the Sea (1991)
Sumo Do, Sumo Don't (1992)
All Under the Moon (1993)
Like a Rolling Stone (1994)
A Last Note (1995)
Boys Be Ambitious (1996)
Bounce Ko Gals (1997)
Hana-bi (1998)
Taboo (1999)
Battle Royale (2000)
Spirited Away (2001)
The Twilight Samurai (2002)
Akame 48 Waterfalls (2003)
Nobody Knows (2004)
Break Through! (2005)
Hula Girls (2006)
Kisaragi (2007)
Climber's High (2008)
Mt. Tsurugidake (2009)
Confessions (2010)
Cold Fish (2011)
Our Homeland (2012)
A Story of Yonosuke (2013)
Samurai Hustle (2014)
The Emperor in August (2015)

Mainichi Film Award for Best Film

1946–1960	Aru yo no Tonosama (1946) Ima Hitotabi no (1947) Drunken Angel (1948) Late Spring (1949) Until We Meet Again (1950) Repast (1951) Ikiru (1952) An Inlet of Muddy Water (1953) Twenty-Four Eyes (1954) Floating Clouds (1955) Mahiru no ankoku (1956) The Rice People (1957) The Ballad of Narayama (1958) Kiku to Isamu (1959) Her Brother (1960)

1961–1980	A Soldier's Prayer (1961) Harakiri (1962) High and Low (1963) Woman in the Dunes (1964) Red Beard (1965) Shiroi Kyotō (1966) Samurai Rebellion (1967) The Profound Desire of the Gods (1968) Double Suicide (1969) Where Spring Comes Late (1970) Silence (1971) The Long Darkness (1972) Tsugaru Folk Song (1973) Castle of Sand (1974) The Fossil (1975) Fumō Chitai (1976) The Yellow Handkerchief (1977) The Incident (1978) Nomugi Pass (1979) Kagemusha (1980)

1981–2000	Muddy River (1981) Fall Guy (1982) Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983) W's Tragedy (1984) Ran (1985) The Sea and Poison (1986) A Taxing Woman (1987) My Neighbor Totoro (1988) Black Rain (1989) Childhood Days (1990) My Sons (1991) Sumo Do, Sumo Don't (1992) All Under the Moon (1993) A Dedicated Life (1994) A Last Note (1995) Shall We Dance? (1996) Princess Mononoke (1997) Begging for Love (1998) Poppoya (1999) Face (2000)

2001–present	Spirited Away (2001) The Twilight Samurai (2002) Akame 48 Waterfalls (2003) Blood and Bones (2004) Break Through! (2005) Sway (2006) I Just Didn't Do It (2007) Departures (2008) Shizumanu Taiyō (2009) Villain (2010) Postcard (2011) A Terminal Trust (2012) The Great Passage (2013) My Man (2014) Three Stories of Love (2015)

Kinema Junpo Award for Best Film

1927–1940	Ashi ni sawatta onna (1927) A Diary of Chuji's Travels (1928) Jobless Samurai (1929) Beheading Place (1930) What Made Her Do It? (1931) The Neighbor's Wife and Mine (1932) I Was Born, But... (1933) Passing Fancy (1934) A Story of Floating Weeds (1935) Wife! Be Like a Rose! (1936) Sisters of the Gion (1937) Limitless Advance (1938) Five Scouts (1939) Earth (1940)

1941–1960	Kojima no haru (1941) The Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (1942) The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malay (1943) Morning for the Osone Family (1947) A Ball at the Anjo House (1948) Drunken Angel (1949) Late Spring (1950) Until We Meet Again (1951) Early Summer (1952) Ikiru (1953) An Inlet of Muddy Water (1954) Twenty-Four Eyes (1955) Floating Clouds (1956) Darkness at Noon (1957) The Rice People (1958) The Ballad of Narayama (1959) Kiku to Isamu (1960)

1961–1980	Her Brother (1961) Bad Boys (1962) Being Two Isn't Easy (1963) The Insect Woman (1964) Woman in the Dunes (1965) Red Beard (1966) The Great White Tower (1967) Samurai Rebellion (1968) The Profound Desire of the Gods (1969) Double Suicide (1970) Where Spring Comes Late (1971) The Ceremony (1972) The Long Darkness (1973) Tsugaru Folk Song (1974) Sandakan No. 8 (1975) Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director (1976) The Youth Killer (1977) The Yellow Handkerchief (1978) Third Base (1979) Vengeance Is Mine (1980)

1981–2000	Zigeunerweisen (1981) Muddy River (1982) Fall Guy (1983) The Family Game (1984) The Funeral (1985) And Then (1986) The Sea and Poison (1987) A Taxing Woman (1988) My Neighbor Totoro (1989) Black Rain (1990) The Cherry Orchard (1991) My Sons (1992) Sumo Do, Sumo Don't (1993) All Under the Moon (1994) A Dedicated Life (1995) A Last Note (1996) Shall We Dance? (1997) The Eel (1998) Fireworks (1998) Wait and See (2000)

2001–present	Face (2001) Go (2002) The Twilight Samurai (2003) A Boy's Summer in 1945 (2004) Nobody Knows (2005) Break Through! (2006) Hula Girls (2007) I Just Didn't Do It (2008) Departures (2009) Dear Doctor (2010) Villain (2011) Postcard (2012) Our Homeland (2013) Pecoross' Mother and Her Days (2014) The Light Shines Only There (2015) Three Stories of Love (2016)

Yokohama Film Festival Best Film

Taiyō o Nusunda Otoko (1980)
Zigeunerweisen (1981)
Something Like It (1982)
Exchange Students (1983)
The Family Game (1984)
Mahjong hōrōki (1985)
Love Hotel (1986)
House of Wedlock (1987)
The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On (1988)
Rock yo shizukani nagareyo (1989)
Dotsuitarunen (1990)
Sakura no Sono (1991)
A Scene at the Sea (1992)
Sumo Do, Sumo Don't (1993)
All Under the Moon (1994)
Tokarefu (1995)
Love Letter (1996)
Kids Return (1997)
Onibi (1998)
Cure (1999)
Keiho (2000)
Face (2001)
Go (2002)
Hush! (2003)
Vibrator (2004)
Kamikaze Girls (2005)
Break Through! (2006)
Sway (2008)
I Just Didn't Do It (2008)
Departures (2009)
Dear Doctor (2010)
13 Assassins (2011)
Someday (2012)
The Kirishima Thing (2013)
The Devil's Path (2014)
The Light Shines Only There (2015)
Our Little Sister (2016)

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