Break Through!

Break Through!
Break Through!
	Poster
Japanese	パッチギ!
Hepburn	Pacchigi!
Directed by	Kazuyuki Izutsu
Starring	Erika Sawajiri; Shun Shioya ; Yōko Maki
Cinematography
Release date	January 22, 2005;
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Break Through! (パッチギ!, Pacchigi!) is a 2005 Japanese film directed by Kazuyuki Izutsu.

Plot[]

Romeo, A.K.A. Kosuke Matsuyama (Shun Shioya), is a second-year high school student. A nice, normal, nonviolent type, he suddenly finds himself in the middle of a rampaging crowd of Korean boys, outraged by insults perpetrated by several of his idiotic classmates on two Korean girls. He makes a narrow escape, but soon after, he and his best bud Yoshio (Keisuke Koide) are sent by their home-room teacher to invite the Korean students to a friendly soccer game as a way of restoring the peace.

Trembling like black-uniformed leaves, they enter enemy territory, where Kosuke encounters a doll-faced, but serious-looking girl (acted by Erika Sawajiri) playing a Korean folk song, "Rimjin River," on a flute. He and Yoshio are also nearly lynched by her older brother Lee Ang Son (Sosuke Takaoka) and his gang, but he is already smitten—and eager to learn that haunting tune.

The story concentrates on Kosuke's struggle to not only master a song, but win the love of a girl who seems to live in an alien, hostile world. Meanwhile, Ang Son and his crew are street-fighting with Japanese toughs as if playing a contact sport, with one side scoring hits, then the other. He is macho to a fault, but when he learns that his sweetheart (Kyoko Yanagihara) is pregnant and determined to keep the baby, he faces a choice that makes him quail: grow up or cop out.

Awards[]

48th Blue Ribbon Awards^[1]

Won: Best Film

27th Yokohama Film Festival^[2]

Won: Best Film
Won: Best Director - Kazuyuki Izutsu
Won: Best Cinematography -
Won: Best Newcomer - Erika Sawajiri and Shun Shioya

References[]

^ ブルーリボン賞ヒストリー (in Japanese). Cinema Hochi. Archived from the original on 2012-05-25. Retrieved 2010-03-31.
^ 第２７回ヨコハマ映画祭２００５年日本映画個人賞 (in Japanese). Yokohama Film Festival. Archived from the original on 2007-09-04. Retrieved 2010-01-16.

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[1] ブルーリボン賞ヒストリー (in Japanese). Cinema Hochi. Archived from the original on 2012-05-25. Retrieved 2010-03-31.

[2] 第２７回ヨコハマ映画祭２００５年日本映画個人賞 (in Japanese). Yokohama Film Festival. Archived from the original on 2007-09-04. Retrieved 2010-01-16.

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