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- IMDb link: 0299937
- IMDb rating: 7.4 (3,252 votes) Search
- Genres: Drama, Romance
- Director: Isao Yukisada
- Cast: Yosuke Kubozuka, Ko Shibasaki, Shinobu Otake, Taro Yamamoto, Hirofumi Arai and others
- Release date: 20 Oct 2001
- Release year: 2001
- Runtime: 122 minutes
- Country: Japan
- Keywords: prejudice, racist, japanese, japanese girl, japanese woman, korean in japan, meeting girlfriend's father, boxing, boxer, immigration
Plot
Storyline
Sugihara, born in Japan but with North Korean parents, falls in love with a Japanese girl after changing from a North Korean school to a Japanese school. His boxer dad teaches him boxing - skills used a lot.
Sugihara (Kubozuka Yosuke) is a troubled student. He comes from a Korean family and attended a junior high school for the children of mainly North Korean families, but has now moved on to a high school for mainly ethnically Japanese students. His family operates a small store that swaps prizes from arcade machines for cash and his father - an ardent supporter of the North Korean regime - surprised the whole community when he decided to apply for a South Korean passport. Ostensibly, he made the decision in order to go on vacation to Hawaii. Sugihara and his friends cause no end of trouble at school and in the neighborhood, with violent fights not uncommon. But when he meets a Japanese girl named Tsubaki Sakurai (Shibasaki Kou), his hard edges soften. The two begin on a relationship - which threatens to turn sour when she learns of his heritage. And when he confronts his father about his motives for obtaining a South Korean passport, he discovers that all is not as it seems... Will Sugihara and Tsubaki Sakurai find love, despite lingering social prejudices? And can Sugihara find a peaceful resolution to his spat with his father?
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