Perfect Game (Korean: 퍼펙트 게임; RR: Peopekteu Geim) is a 2011 South Korean 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.[2] 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.[3]
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Hangul | 퍼펙트 게임 |
Revised Romanization | Peopekteu Geim |
McCune–Reischauer | P‘ŏp‘et‘ŭ Geim |
Directed by | Park Hee-gon |
Written by | Park Hee-gon |
Produced by | Lee Ho-seong Kim Seong-tae Jang Won-seok Choi Nak-kwon |
Starring | Cho Seung-woo Yang Dong-geun |
Cinematography | Choi Sang-ho |
Edited by | Kim Chang-ju |
Music by | Kim Tae-seong |
Distributed by | Lotte Entertainment |
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Running time | 127 minutes |
Country | South Korea |
Language | Korean |
Box office | US$10 million[1] |
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.[4][5][6][7] It stars Cho Seung-woo as Choi and Yang Dong-geun as Sun.[8][9][10][11][12]
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