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Pacchigi! is a film of genre Drama directed by Kazuyuki Izutsu with Erika Sawajiri
Pacchigi! (2005)
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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.Actors
Erika Sawajiri
(Kyung-ja Lee)
Yōko Maki
Shun Shioya
(Kousuke Matsuyama)
Sōsuke Takaoka
Hiroyuki Onoue
(Jae-dok Park)
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