This true story retells the incredible tale of the 2012 National High School Basketball Championship, in which a new coach and six players from the weakest basketball team ran nonstop for eight days.
Acting
Ahn Jae-hong's exhausted desperation feels lived-in, not performed.
Direction
Chang Hang-jun makes training montages feel like psychological warfare.
Editing
The eight-day run sequences collapse time without losing exhaustion.

Director
Chang Hang-jun
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The real Busan Jungang High team had only six players because the rest quit after their first crushing loss. The film keeps this detail.
South Korea's high school basketball tournament is nationally televised, making last-place teams public embarrassments—this film captures that specific humiliation.