2000 • Korea • Directed by Kim Jee-woon

PICK UP THE MASK. ENTER THE RING.

Celebrated Korean filmmaker Kim Jee-woon (A Tale of Two Sisters) resurrects his childhood wrestling idols in the uproarious comedy The Foul King. A sensational and stunt double-free Song Kang-ho (Parasite) provides hard-hitting laughs and thrills on and off the mat in the debut leading role that would launch him to stardom.

After being submitted one too many times to his macho boss’s headlocks, perpetually tardy city bank clerk Dae-ho looks to the past to secure his future—the wrestling stars of his youth. Chil-sam, the sour coach of a gym long past its prime, is reluctant to take him on, until an unscrupulous promoter twists his arm into training a new “Foul King”. The desperate Dae-ho fits the bill and learns all the dirty tricks he’ll need to survive inside and outside of the ring.

One of the key early works in Korean cinema’s rise to international recognition, The Foul King memorably combines laughs, pathos, and biting social commentary.