Break Through!
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- Movie: Break Through!
- Romaji: Pacchigi!
- Japanese: パッチギ！
- Director: Kazuyuki Izutsu
- Writer: Takeshi Matsuyama, Daisuke Habara, Kazuyuki Izutsu
- Producer: Yoshiro Hosono, Hitomi Ishihara, Tomiyasu Ishikawa, Shironori Kawasaki, Haruo Kawashima, Bong-Ou Lee, Yoshihiro Nagata
- Cinematographer Hideo Yamamoto
- Release Date: January 22, 2005
- Runtime: 119 min.
- Distributor: Cinequanon
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
Plot
Romeo, A.K.A. Kosuke Matsuyama (Shun Shioya), is a second-year high school student. A nice, normal, nonviolent type, he suddenly finds himself in the middle of a rampaging crowd of Korean boys, outraged by insults perpetrated by several of his idiotic class-mates on two Korean girls. He makes a narrow escape, but soon after, he and his best bud Yoshio (Keisuke Koide) are sent by their home-room teacher to invite the Korean students to a friendly soccer game as a way of restoring the peace.
Trembling like black-uniformed leaves, they enter enemy territory, where Kosuke encounters a doll-faced, but serious-looking girl (Erika Sawajiri) playing a Korean folk song, "Imjin River," on a flute. He and Yoshio are also nearly lynched by her older brother Lee Ang Son (Sosuke Takaoka) and his gang, but he is already smitten -- and eager to learn that haunting tune.
The story concentrates on Kosuke's struggle to not only master a song, but win the love of a girl who seems to live in an alien, hostile world. Meanwhile, Ang Son and his crew are street-fighting with Japanese toughs as if playing a contact sport, with one side scoring hits, then the other. He is macho to a fault, but when he learns that his sweet-heart (Kyoko Yanagihara) is pregnant and determined to keep the baby, he faces a choice that makes him quail: grow up or cop out.
Cast
- Shun Shioya - Kousuke Matsuyama
- Sousuke Takaoka - An-sung Lee
- Erika Sawajiri - Kyung-ja Lee
- Kyoko Yanagihara - Momoko
- Hiroyuki Onoue - Jae-dok Park
- Yoko Maki - Gang-ja Chun
- Keisuke Koide - Norio Yoshida
- Kazuki Namioka - Bang-ho Motoki
- Joe Odagiri - Sakazaki
- Yosuke Asari - Akamatsu
- Noriko Eguchi
- Ryo Kase - Hideto Noguchi
- Hideya Kinoshita - Student
- Ken Mitsuishi - Fukawa Sensei
- Yu Tokui
- Gin Maeda
- Chisun
- Takashi Taniguchi
- Houka Kinoshita
- Sachiko Kurosawa
- Tak Sakaguchi
- Seiki Nagahara
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Awards
- "Best Picture" - 2005 (48th) Blue Ribbon Awards - February 7, 2006
- "Rookie of the Year" ("Erika Sawajiri"/"Shun Shioya") - 2006 (29th) Japan Academy Prize - March 3, 2006
sa0mai_bt Says:
Jun 16 2011 11:18 pm
'' Pacchigi! '' is the best film that I have ever seen