Volcano High (2001)

Original title

화산고

Directed by

Kim Tae-gyun

Genre

action film, martial arts film

Country

South Korea

Runtime

2h 02m

Rated

16

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 90 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A troublemaking student transfers to a high school where students have martial arts skills and psychic powers. He gets caught up in fights between clubs and a conflict over a mysterious manuscript.

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What happens

Volcano High (Korean: 화산고; RR: Hwasango) is a 2001 South Korean martial arts action comedy film. It revolves around a troublemaking high school student named Kim Kyung-soo (portrayed by Jang Hyuk) who finds himself transferred to the last school that will take him, the prestigious Volcano High, an institution whose students display an incredible talent in martial arts, with a few demonstrating even more mysterious psychic powers. Kyung-soo is drawn into fights between different clubs, a manuscript that is told to hold great power, and a group of teachers that will do whatever possible to keep the students in line. It was the 9th highest grossing Korean film of 2001 with 1,687,800 admissions nationwide, and had both an original domestic version and edited international version. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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