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THE KING OF JOKGU
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- Director
- WOO Moon-gi
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- Year
- 2014
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- Nationality
- Korea
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- Genre
- Comedy
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- Status
- Release(August 21, 2014)
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- Starring
- AHN Jae-hong, HWANG Seung-un, JUNG Woo-sik
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- Running Time
- 104min
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- Festival & Review
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2013
Busan International Film Festival
Jeongdongjin Independent Film Festival
2014
London Korean Film Festival
2015
Korean Film Festival In Australia
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People call him a jerk-off, but he is just a man who loves Jokgu a lot!
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SYNOPSIS
A former KING of Jokgu( Foot volleyball), Man-seob was famous for his unstoppable foot spike in the army. When Man-seob comes back to school after completing military service, he is surprised that the Jokgu court has disappeared. He asks the school chancellor to build a new court, but neither the school nor the students care about missing court. All is busy thinking about getting a job, and no romance exists any more in the campus. One day in a class Man-seob meets Anna, the school queen, and it is love at first sight. Jokgu is what he does the best, so he organizes school's Jokgu championship to win her heart and to realize his passion. -
DIRECTOR INFO
- The Director Woo Moon-gi has shown his own talent in exquisite combination of sensitive character comedy and sharp satirical drama with his works such as and which are introduced at numerous film festivals. Not only directing film, but he has been doing active works in various fields as an art director of , a director of a music video of the musician Peppertones, and an actor in a short film and in a feature film . His first feature film attracts both industry and public gazes by performing at his optimal level of potential at another different point from the usual independent films with its eyes catching healthy vitality peculiar to a youth film, a sense of cutting remarks dealing with comedy, and a masterful directing ability completing action scenes.
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