The Foul King

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The Foul King
Theatrical poster
Hangul	반칙왕
Hanja	反則王
Revised Romanization	Banchikwang
McCune–Reischauer	Panch‘ikwang
Directed by	Kim Jee-woon
Written by	Kim Jee-woon
Produced by	Lee Mi-yeon
Starring	Song Kang-ho
Cinematography	Hong Kyung-pyo
Distributed by	Mirovision
Release date	February 4, 2000 (2000-02-04)
Running time	112 minutes
Country	South Korea
Language	Korean
Budget	US$1.6 million

The Foul King (Korean: 반칙왕; RR: Banchikwang) is a 2000 South Korean comedy-drama film, written and directed by Kim Jee-woon. It was Kim's second feature-length film after The Quiet Family. Like the director's debut film, The Foul King also stars Song Kang-ho, this time as an incompetent bank clerk who takes up a career in professional wrestling, adopting the moniker "The Foul King" in the ring.^[1]

Plot

Im Dae-ho (Song Kang-ho) has been a huge fan of professional wrestling since his childhood. In South Korea, a wrestler called Kim Il was a big star in the 1970s, but Dae-ho preferred a cheating fighter called Ultra Tiger Mask. Years later, when his job at a bank isn't going well, Dae-ho decides to try professional wrestling himself.

Cast

• Song Kang-ho as Im Dae-ho
• Jang Jin-young as Jang Min-young
• Park Sang-myun as Tae Baek-san
• Kim Su-ro as Yoo Bi-ho
• Jang Hang-sun as Jang Gwan-jang
• Jung Woong-in as Choi Du-sik
• Shin Goo as Im Dae-ho's father

References

External links

• The Foul King at IMDb
• The Foul King at the Korean Movie Database
• The Foul King at HanCinema
• Darcy Paquet's review at koreanfilm.org

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