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Even people who are not into sports enjoy watching a good movie of TV series about athletes who Triumph! ♦ (1) Rebound (2023) [movie] Storyline: A movie made for basketball lovers. Perfect if you follow high school basketball teams. Kang Yang-Hyun coaches a high school basketball team and teaches players the value of persevering through challenges and dreaming Big! Based on a true story. Fun Facts: Basketball was introduced to Korea in the early 1900s, mainly through American missionary schools. The Korean Basketball Association (Kba) established in 1947 helped organize and promote the sport nationwide. The national team won the title in the 1997 Fiba Asia Championship. The South Korean national teams have faced off against American teams in international competitions. Main Characters: Kang Yang-Hyun Cheon Ki-Beom Bae Kyu-Hyeok (played by Jinwoon) Hong Soon-Kyu (played by Kim Taek) Jung Gang-Ho Where to Watch Viewership and Rating: IMDb: 7 out of 10 stars My Drama List: 8.3 out of...

Exclusive: Los Angeles-based sales and production company Myriad Pictures has picked up international rights to Korean romantic drama Run To You, directed by Lee Seunghoon, and will launch sales at the Asian Contents and Film Market (Acfm) during Busan film festival.

Produced by Korea’s Heyday Production, the film stars Ha Seok-Jin (Radiant Office), Lee Sin-Young (Crash Landing On You) and Dahyun, one of members of K-Pop girl group Twice.

The story revolves around a veteran sprinter (Ha Seok-jin), who is getting one last opportunity to re-kindle the love of his life, and a happy-go-lucky high schooler (Lee Sin-young) who pulls out all the stops to win over the love of Ji Eun (Dahyun).

Also scripted by Lee, the film marks his first narrative feature after directing short film Listen To My Heart and documentary A Not So Small Ball Launched By A Dwarf.

Heyday Production was founded by...

Basketball is not exactly a sport movies are frequently made about in Korean cinema. However, the true story of coach Kang Yang-hyeon and the Busan Jungang High School's 2012 run to the national championship final despite having only six players on its roster, definitely had some cinematic value, and after a decade of pondering, due to the efforts of BA Entertainment and scriptwriters Kim Eun-hee and Kwon Sung-hui, the story became a film. “Rebound” was rather successful in the local box office, opening up in the second place and currently holding the sixth for 2023.

Rebound is screening at New York Asian Film Festival

Once a renowned basketball school, Jungang High School had been on the verge of shutting down the basketball program after years of poor performance and stagnation, a stark contrast with Seoul powerhouse Yongsan High School, who has “poaching” local players for years. Alumnus and former star Kang Yang-hyeon...

South Korea’s K-Movie Entertainment has closed a slew of deals on basketball comeback drama Rebound led by Signal Pictures for the UK, Australia and New Zealand.

The film also sold to Taiwan (Movie Cloud), Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam and Thailand (Clover Films), Philippines (888 Films International), in-flight (Encore), Cis (Kinologistika), Mongolia (The Filmbridge) and Hong Kong (Disney Hong Kong).

Written by Kwon Sung-hui (The Spy Gone North) and Kim Eun-hee (Netflix’s Kingdom), the film is based on a true story of the miraculous comeback by Busan’s Jung-Ang High School basketball team.

Directed by Chang Hang-jun (Forgotten), it...

Sports films are back in demand in Korea, with Shin Yeon-shick’s “One Win”, Lee Byeong-heon’s follow-up to his massively successful “Extreme Job”, “Dream”, starring Park Seo-joon and Lee Ji-eun and the upcoming “Count” starring Jin Sun-kyu being but three titles coming soon in the genre. Yet another name that can be added to the list is “Rebound” by Jang Hang-jun, which takes on the popular sport of basketball.

Synopsis

Joong-Ang High School was once renowned for its high ranked basketball team, but as the years pass and victories grow fewer, the school’s social worker Kang Yang-hyeon who was a former minor league baseball player, becomes the head coach. Left over talent refuses to play under an inexperienced coach, leaving Coach Kang to pull together a ragtag team of sports misfits. The team is pushed to their limits, but one final obstacle threatens to destroy what little hope was left,...