Crying Fist 2005 123movies

Watch: 주먹이 운다 2005 123movies, Full Movie Online – Kang Tae Sik is a 43-year-old former silver medalist boxer. He now spends his days hawking himself as a human punching bag to passersby in a shopping district in Seoul and other times hiding from various loan sharks. His wife wants a divorce and is threatening to take take their own only son with her. Yoo Sang Hwan is a troubled youth, who was only recently released from prison. Sang Hwan robbed and beat up his elderly neighbor in an attempt to pay off his debts. While in prison, a guard recommended Sang Hwan take up boxing as a way to release his aggression. Now, with his father having passed away, his mother’s whereabouts unknown and his grandmother just having a stroke, Sang Hwan is desperate. An amateur boxing competition takes place, providing hope for these two men. They will meet in the ring..
Plot: Jobless, besieged by creditors, and abandoned by his wife, the once silver medalist Tae-shik has sunk to street hustling, becoming a human punching bag. Meanwhile, young Sang-hwan’s delinquent ways land him behind bars. Both men look to boxing to turn around lives gone astray, aiming for the amateur title, ultimately pitting them against each other, but more importantly, against themselves.
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Ratings:

	7.2/10 Votes: 3,035
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	N/A Votes: 59 Popularity: 4.255 | TMDB

Reviews:

This is a solid effort
Another day, another Corean film, but another good one. This one is a boxing movie. But it’s not really a boxing movie in the sense that Rocky is a boxing movie. It’s rather a drama foremost, about down-and-out losers and their sad pathetic lives, and then a boxing movie: boxing being the means by which they can lift themselves out of their conditions.

The two characters are quite different in some sense, one being a former silver medal winning Asian Games champion with no job and on the brink of losing his marriage and family and the other being a troubled street youth with a compassionate family. At some point, both characters lose out and find their hope in boxing, whether on the streets as a human sandbag or in the prison gym. And then a greater hope is found.

Of course, unlike a typical boxing movie, you have two protagonists and when their paths cross, you don’t know who to root for. Both are sad sacks and hard to love people, but have enough humanity still in them that you can’t help but wish for them to make it in the end. But… the movie brings up the strange conflict of… who? All the same, that sort of conflict is fairly realistic in any one vs. one story when you think about it. There’s hardly a truly villainous villain like the villain of Rocky IV.

The film is shot in two different styles, for each characters stories, although they’re tied together well by overarching style elements and the characters are fairly well developed and superbly acted. I will admit that the younger character’s story is a little incredulous sometimes and a small bit contrived for extra sympathy, but the movie is generally so watchable overall that I was able to ignore it. With mostly solid writing, great acting, excellent direction and high production value, I’d have to say that Crying Fist has turned out to be one of my favorite boxing films and possibly even sports film. Which isn’t to say it’s one of my favorite films.

Some of the contrivances are still glaring, and it’s hard to fully ignore, but all the same, this is a solid effort and a film that I could recommend highly. Good stuff! 8/10.

A fight for dignity
Boxing is used in this movie as the main plot, but this is not a Rocky episode and the protagonists do not fight for glory, fame or wealth. The climax match is just for the domestic rookie contest title and even a win would not improve the life of either Kang or Ryu that much. Boxing has long been dying as a professional sports anyway, at least in Korea.

So what these two main characters fight for? They are just trying to regain the minimum dignity as a human being, the last desperate effort to climb up from the deepest bottom of their existence. Therefore, you know, sometimes who wins is not so important.

This film was not a big hit when it was released to Korean theaters, and no wonder it was as the majority of movie consumers are happy youngsters.

Many of them think this is just another tear-jerking melodrama. It is not, I guarantee, but you would not be able to appreciate the real thing unless you have once gone through your own hell in the life. I cried with Ryu at the end of the movie, I felt his sorrow and happiness so real just as they were mine, it was mentally painful.

Other Information:

Original Language ko
Runtime 2 hr 14 min (134 min) (South Korea), 2 hr 14 min (134 min) (Australia), 2 hr 3 min (123 min) (2005 New York Asian) (USA)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated N/A
Genre Action, Drama, Sport
Director Seung-wan Ryu
Writer Cheol-Hong Jeon, Seung-wan Ryu
Actors Choi Min-sik, Seung-beom Ryu, Jeong-ah Bae
Country South Korea
Awards 4 wins
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process N/A
Printed Film Format 35 mm