Champion

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.

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Kim Yong-wan directed Champion in 2018. See Kim Yong-wan's full filmography, where to start with Kim Yong-wan, or where to go after you've seen everything by Kim Yong-wan.

Champion was released in 2018 (KO original-language production), with a runtime of 108 minutes.