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Champ (2011)
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Add to a movie listChamp (Hangul: 챔프; RR: Champeu) is 2011 South Korean film is about a former horse jockey who became blind after losing his wife in an accident, but now gets a second chance with the help of his daughter and an injured horse.
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Two damaged souls race together for the race of their lifetime. Horse jockey Seung-ho loses his wife in a fatal car accident. The accident also leaves him practically blind. No longer able to work, he leads an aimless life with his little daughter. Things take turn for the worse when he loses all his savings after trying to cheat at the horse track and flees to a remote ranch in Jeju Island. There he meets a violent and limping horse named Woo-bak and he trains the horse for racing. Against all odds, Seung-ho and Woo-bak finish first in the preliminaries but when Seung-ho's blindness is discovered by the officials, they're disqualified from the finals. Woo-bak rejects all other jockeys and waits for Seung-ho to come back. The limping horse and his blind jockey bet everything to race one last time.Actors
Cha Tae-hyun
(Seung-ho)
Park Ha-sun
(Yoon-Hee)
Yu Oh-seong
(Trainer Yoon)
Park Won-sang
(Trainer Kim)
Kim Sang-ho
(Sheriff)
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