Lifting King Kong (2009)

Lee Ji-Bong is a former Olympics bronze medalist for weight-lifting, but a career-ending injury from the games forces him into early retirement. Unable to find another vocation, he becomes destitute. Down and out, he ends up working at a shady nightclub passing out flyers until he is visited by his former coach who insists he begin a career as a coach at a high school. There, he forms a weight-lifting team comprised of a rag-tag group of outcasts.

Released

2009-07-01

Genres

Drama

Runtime

120 min

Status

Released

Directed / written by

Park Gun-yong

TMDB rating

7.0/10 from 6 votes