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Lifting King Kong (2009)
Directed by Park Gun-yong
“Lift up the world!”
Drama · 2h 00m
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.
Cast
Lee Beom-soo
Lee Ji-bong
Jo An
Park Young-ja
Moon Choi
Seo Yeo-soon
Kim Min-young
Lee Bo-young
Byun Hee-bong
School Superintendent
Ki Joo-bong
Director Baek (cameo)
Ahn Yong-jun
In-ho
Lim Seung-dae
Doctor
K
Kim San
Shim Sang-hwan
Park Joon-geum
Principal
Woo Hyeon
Head teacher
Shin Jung-keun
Big brother
Crew
- Director
- Park Gun-yong
- Writer
- Park Gun-yong, Bae Se-young
- Editor
- Shin Min-kyung
- Producer
- Han Gil-ro
Details
- Original title
- 킹콩을 들다
- Release date
- 2009-07-01
- Runtime
- 2h 00m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- KO
- Spoken languages
- Korean
- Countries
- South Korea
- Production
- Next Entertainment World, Michigan Venture Capital, Mirovision, RG Enterworks, CL Entertainment, CJ Entertainment