Champ (2011 film)

Champ (Korean: 챔프) is 2011 South Korean sport comedy-drama film is about a former horse jockey who became blind after losing his wife in an accident, but now gets a second chance with the help of his daughter and an injured horse.^[2]

Champ
Theatrical poster
Korean name
Hangul	챔프
Revised Romanization	Chaempeu
McCune–Reischauer	Ch'aemp'ŭ
Directed by	Lee Hwan-kyung
Written by	Lee Hwan-kyung Kim Young-seok Kim Hwang-sung
Produced by	Kim Min-ki Lee Myung-sook Lee Sang-hoon Kim Min-guk Lim Hee-chul Chung Jae-seung Heo Chang Kim Sang-eun
Starring	Cha Tae-hyun Kim Su-jung Yu Oh-seong Park Ha-sun
Cinematography	Lee Sang-gak
Edited by	Kim So-yeon Choi Jae-geun
Music by	Lee Dong-jun
Production companies	FineWorks Daemyung Culture Factory Vantage Holdings Jidam Inc. (formerly Yein Culture) CL Entertainment
Distributed by	Showbox/Mediaplex
Release date	September 7, 2011 (2011-09-07)
Running time	133 minutes
Country	South Korea
Language	Korean
Box office	US$3,232,193[1]

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 named Woo-bak and he trains the horse for racing. Against all odds, Seung-ho and Woo-bak finish 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 waits for Seung-ho to come back. The limping horse and his blind jockey bet everything to race one last time.

Cast

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

Box office

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

References

1. "Champ (2011)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2014-09-20.
2. Sung, So-young; Song, Yoon-soo (26 August 2011). "Adorable scene stealers nose their way onto screen". Korea JoongAng Daily. Retrieved 2014-09-20.
3. "South Korea Box Office: September 9–11, 2011". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2014-09-20.
4. "Korean Box Office: September 9–11, 2011". Hancinema. Retrieved 2014-09-20.
5. "South Korea Box Office: September 30–October 2, 2011". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2014-09-20.
6. "Korean Box Office: November 4–6, 2011". Hancinema. Retrieved 2014-09-20.

External links

• Official website (in Korean)
• Champ at Jidam Inc. (in Korean)
• Champ at the Korean Movie Database (in Korean)
• Champ at IMDb
• Champ at HanCinema