Perfect Game (2011)

Original title

퍼펙트 게임

Directed by

Park Hee-gon

Genre

drama film, biographical film, sport film

Country

South Korea

Runtime

2h 07m

Rated

12

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 15 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This film is about two star pitchers from rival Korean baseball teams in the 1980s. Their personal rivalry heats up because of regional loyalties. The story focuses on their final head-to-head match in 1987, which turns into a long and drawn-out game.

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What happens

Perfect Game (Korean: 퍼펙트 게임) is a 2011 South Korean biographical sports drama film based on the true story of rivals Sun Dong-yeol of the Haitai Tigers and Choi Dong-won of the Lotte Giants, the top pitchers in the Korea Baseball Organization league during the 1980s. The rivalry between the two was further heated up by regionalism at the time with Sun representing the Jeolla Province and Choi, the Gyeongsang Province. The sports movie revisits one of the most exciting matches in Korean baseball history on May 16, 1987, which would be the last time the two stars would face each other, and ended in a 15-inning draw, although neither actually pitched a perfect game. It stars Cho Seung-woo as Choi and Yang Dong-geun as Sun. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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