Champ

Sep 7 2011 N/A 2h 13m
Comedy, Drama, Sport

A former jockey who became blind after losing his wife in an accident gets a second chance with the help of his daughter and an injured horse.

Plot

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 Woo-bak and he trains the horse ready for race. Against all odds, Seung-ho and Woo-bak finishes 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 direly awaits Seung-ho to come back. The limping horse and his blind jockey bet everything to race one last time.

Written by

Hwang-seong Kim, Young-seok Kim

Directed by

Hwan-kyung Lee

Production Countries

South Korea

Production Companies

Fineworks, Daemyung Culture Factory, Showbox

Languages

Awards

N/A

Scores
# of Votes
231
Average Rating
6.3 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA