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  • Movie: The Foul King
  • Revised romanization: Banchikwang
  • Hangul: 반칙왕
  • Director: Kim Jee-Woon
  • Writer: Kim Jee-Woon, Kim Dae-Woo
  • Producer: Oh Jeong-Wan, Lee Mi-Yeon, Jo Jin-A
  • Cinematographer Hong Kyeong-Pyo
  • Release Date: January 29, 2000
  • Runtime: 111 Min.
  • 'Genre: Comedy / Sports / Wrestling
  • Distributor: Cinema Service
  • Language: Korean
  • Country: South Korea

Plot

Lim Dae-Ho (Song Kang-Ho) works as a bank teller while suffering through the grind of his miserable 9 to 5 existence. He is constantly bullied at work by his boss (Song Young-Chang). Then one day, Dae-Ho walks past a modest gym. The gym is for minor league professional wrestlers hoping to one day break into the big leagues. Dae-Ho thinks back to his childhood days and his love for professional wrestling and in particular his love for the wrestler Ultra Tiger Mask. Dae-Ho then decides to try out for wrestling.

Although he's not talented enough to ever become a top wrestler, Dae-Ho trains diligently at night. Eventually he is turned into the villain known as "The Foul King" ...

Notes

  1. "The Foul King" was the top domestic film in Korea for 2000. The film sold 817,000 tickets in the Seoul region.

Cast

Foul King-Song Kang-Ho.jpg Foul King-Jang Jin-Young .jpg Foul King-Park Sang-Myeon.jpg Foul King-Jang Hang-Seon.jpg
Song Kang-Ho Jang Jin-Young Park Sang-Myeon Jang Hang-Seon
Lim Dae-Ho Jang Min-Young Tae Baek-San Jang Kwon-Jang
Foul King-Jeong Woong-In.jpg Foul King-Kim Su-Ro.jpg Foul King-Song Young-Chang.jpg Foul King-Kim Ka-Yeon.jpg
Jung Woong-In Kim Su-Ro Song Young-Chang Kim Ka-Yeon
Du-Sik Yu Bee-Ho Assistant Manager Ms. Jo

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  • Comment #1
    ButterflyJoe Says:

    Song Kang-Ho is one of my favorite actors and he does an amazing job playing a rookie wrestler, the last match was really awesome, all in all the whole movie is great. RIP Jang Jin-Young.

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