Post by Fritz on Aug 8, 2016 12:29:18 GMT
Take Off 2 (국가대표2) hits theaters in Korea on Aug. 10. Starring actresses Su Ae (Mask) and Oh Yun Seo (Please Come Back, Mister), it's a story about an eclectic group of women who band together through their common love of skating to become South Korea's first national women's ice hockey team. It's the sequel to the 2009 movie about the Korean men's 1998 Olympic ski-jump team.
Oh Dal Soo (Veteran) plays the team coach, who talks big but doesn't have the record to back it up. He's a comedic father-figure to these spiritually broken athletes. Su Ae is a North Korean refugee, who was the ace on the national hockey team in her homeland. Due to cultural differences and misunderstandings, the movie starts out with her locking horns with the other South Korean hockey players including Oh Yun Seo, a former short-track skater who was disgracefully expelled from the national short-track team.
The rest of the hockey team consists of a strange bunch of misfits with vastly different motivations. Ha Jae Sook (Beautiful Mind, Birth of a Beauty) is a housewife who seems to have lost her purpose in life, but turns into a machine on the ice. A money-obsessed Kim Seul Gi (Splash Splash Love, Oh My Ghostess) becomes an accountant-turned-athlete for the national ice hockey league. Additionally, ex-figure skating fairy Kim Ye Won (Only Love, Pretty Man) dreams of changing her life through marriage, but somehow ends up on the hockey team. Finally, Jin Ji Hee (Baek Hee Has Returned) takes on the role of a starry-eyed ambitious student who aspires to become the youngest ever national ice hockey player.
Together, they sweat and toil toward a shared goal of winning the 2003 Asian Winter Games. It's a feel-good underdog story about camaraderie and love for the sport. The friendships made through grueling training sessions create a synergy that allows the first South Korean women's hockey team to persevere through the Aomori Asian Games.
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