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Marathon (Korean: 말아톤) is a 2005 South Korean drama film directed by Jeong Yoon-cheol, and starring Cho Seung-woo and Kim Mi-sook. It received 5,148,022 admissions, making it the 4th most attended Korean film of 2005.
Dec 23, 2015 · Kyung-sook finds out that her son Cho-won is autistic and feels devastated. But she firmly believes that there is something Cho-won can do very well. Kyung-sook and a former champion marathoner ...
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- KoreanFilmBiz KoBiz
Jan 27, 2005 · Marathon: Directed by Yoon-Chul Jung. With Cho Seung-woo, Kim Mi-sook, Lee Ki-young, Baek Sung-hyun. An autistic boy discovers he has a talent for running and with the help of the mother participates in a major marathon.
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- Biography, Drama, Sport
- Yoon-Chul Jung
- 2005-01-27
With the help of his family and a coach, an autistic man trains and competes in a lengthy marathon. The young man had always dreamed of competing in an event like that.
Cho Won (Cho Seung Woo) is a young autistic man who is wholly dependent on the support of his mother Kyung Sook (Kim Mi Sook). When he was a young boy, he would sometimes harm himself and could not communicate well with other people.
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- Cho Seung Woo
Synopsis. The movie follows the story of a young man with autism, named Cho-Won, who finds release only in running. As a child, Cho-Won regularly threw tantrums, bit himself, and refused to communicate with others -- finding solace only in zebras and the Korean snack, Chocopie.
An autistic young man trains for his first marathon with the "help" of an out-of-shape and often drunk coach and under the watchful eye of his (sometimes over-) protective mother. All the trappings of the underdog sports movie are here, but this movie might make you cry anyway.
