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World Premiere GENSAN PUNCH

A Window on Asian Cinema

Sports · True Story · Impaired · Human Rights

  • CountryPhilippines/Japan
  • Production Year2021
  • Running Time110min
  • FormatDCP
  • ColorColor
Program Note
Disability is not a subject to overcome but to be embraced. Nao Tsuyama dreams of becoming a professional boxer. However, being an handicapped person with a prosthetic leg due to a childhood accident, he is denied official registration at the Japanese Boxing Association. To get the international license, he decides to go to the Philippines where he has to start from zero. It has a different language and culture. He meets Rudy who used to be a successful champion, but now runs a shabby boxing club on the outskirts of the Philippines. Nao starts to feel the paternal love he lacked as a child. He also builds friendship with colleagues who are training for their own circumstances. He realizes that there is a sense of desperation among all of them. The harsh reality can barely change, and there are moments of truth that must be faced. Beauty always lies in the process. Based on a true story, GENSAN PUNCH is a tribute to human challenges. (PARK Sungho)
Director
Director
Brillante Ma MENDOZA
Brillante Ma Mendoza is widely recognized one of the most influential film directors in the Philippines. After graduating from the University of Santo Tomas, he began producing television commercials and feature films, and quickly gained international acclaim when he won the Golden Leopard at the 2005 Locarno Film Festival for his debut film, The Masseur. He later won Best Director for his film Kinatay (2009) at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. Thy Womb (2012) competed for the Golden Lion at the 2012 Venice Film Festival. Mendoza’s later projects, including Trap (2015), Ma′ Rosa (2016), Alpha: The Right to Kill (2018), Journey (2018), and Mindanao (2019), have screened and garnered awards at the leading film festivals around the world.
Credit
  • Director
    Brillante Ma MENDOZA
  • ProducerBrillante Ma MENDOZA
    Takahiro YAMASHITA
    Krisma Maclang FAJARDO
  • CastShogen
    Ronnie LAZARO
    Beauty GONZALES
    Kaho MINAMI
    Jun NAYRA
    Vince RILLON
  • ScreenplayHonee ALIPIO
  • Production CompanyCenter Stage Productions (CSP) Co.
    cspco.ph@gmail.com
    Gentle Underground Monkeys Co.
    Ltd.
    dragon2arm@gmail.com
  • World SalesSC Films International Ltd.
    fumie@scfilmsinternational.com
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