# Champion (2018)

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**Original title**: *챔피언*
**Runtime**: 108 min
**Genres**: Drama, Comedy
**Directed by**: Kim Yong-wan
**Written by**: Kim Yong-wan
**Starring**: Don Lee, Kwon Yul, Han Ye-ri, Choi Seung-hoon, Ok Ye-rin, Son Sook

> *There's nothing he can't knock down.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

This one wants to be *Rocky* but with more hugging. Mark, a Korean-American adoptee and former arm-wrestling champ, gets a shot at a comeback in South Korea, where he's also reunited with his biological family. It’s a sports movie, so you know where this is going.

**Mood tags**: cozy, tender, uplifting

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