Champ (2011 film)

Champ
Theatrical poster
Hangul
Revised Romanization	Champeu
McCune–Reischauer	Ch‘aemp‘ŭ
Directed by	Lee Hwan-kyung
Produced by	Kim Min-ki Lee Myung-sook Lee Sang-hoon Kim Min-guk Lim Hee-chul Chung Jae-seung Heo Chang Kim Sang-eun
Written by	Lee Hwan-kyung Kim Young-seok Kim Hwang-sung
Starring	Cha Tae-hyun Kim Su-jung Yu Oh-seong Park Ha-sun
Music by	Lee Dong-jun
Cinematography	Lee Sang-gak
Edited by	Kim So-yeon Choi Jae-geun
Production company	FineWorks Daemyung Culture Factory
Distributed by	Showbox/Mediaplex
Release date	September 7, 2011 (2011-09-07)
Running time	133 minutes
Country	South Korea
Language	Korean
Box office	US$3,232,193

Champ (Hangul: 챔프; RR: Champeu) is 2011 South Korean film is about a former horse jockey who became blind after losing his wife in an accident, but now gets a second chance with the help of his daughter and an injured horse.

Two damaged souls race together for the race of their lifetime. Horse jockey Seung-ho loses his wife in a fatal car accident. The accident also leaves him practically blind. No longer able to work, he leads an aimless life with his little daughter. Things take turn for the worse when he loses all his savings after trying to cheat at the horse track and flees to a remote ranch in Jeju Island. There he meets a violent and limping horse named Woo-bak and he trains the horse for racing. Against all odds, Seung-ho and Woo-bak finish first in the preliminaries but when Seung-ho's blindness is discovered by the officials, they're disqualified from the finals. Woo-bak rejects all other jockeys and waits for Seung-ho to come back. The limping horse and his blind jockey bet everything to race one last time.

The film was released in South Korea on September 7, 2011. The film grossed US$765,803 on its opening weekend, ranking at number 6 with 112,513 admissions. In total the film grossed US$3,232,193 and had 535,766 admissions nationwide.