Gensan Punch (2021) on Netflix
Nao Tsuyama refuses to let his prosthetic leg hinder his boxing dream. Barred in Japan, he travels to General Santos in the Philippines to train for a professional license.
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Nao Tsuyama is an athlete in Japan who has a prosthetic leg and refuses to let it stop him from becoming a professional boxer. Japanese authorities bar him from professional competition, citing safety reasons tied to his disability. He leaves for the Philippines and heads to General Santos, the city nicknamed Gensan, which has produced many Filipino boxers, including Manny Pacquiao. In that boxing community he trains and pursues a professional license, determined to keep his dream alive despite the restrictions he faced at home.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Gensan Punch (2021)
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- Naozumi "Gensan" Tsuyama, a Japanese boxer with a prosthetic leg, was barred from a professional career in Japan on safety grounds, so he went to the Philippines and won a 2006 match that helped him obtain a pro boxing license; he retired in 2015 without a pro bout in Japan.
- Director Brillante Mendoza used a "non-scripted method" while working with his Japanese actors, and the boxing bouts in the film had no choreography at all.
- Some of the film's scenes in Japan were shot during the COVID-19 pandemic, while the scenes involving large crowds had been taken before the pandemic.
- Gensan Punch was the first sports biographical film in the career of director Brillante Mendoza, and it was an international Philippine-Japanese co-production.
