Trailer
Plot summary
Do Wan-deuk is eighteen and lives with his father Jeong-bok, a hunchback, and his stuttering uncle Min-gu, two former cabaret clowns who now work in open-air markets. His mother walked out seventeen years ago and he has never met her, and he has grown into a brawler. Lee Dong-ju, his teacher, lives on the rooftop next door and treats every pupil harshly. When the father and uncle take to the road to find work, the teacher is asked to watch over the boy.
Cast
- Sudip Banerjeeas Hassan
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Punch (2011)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Jasmine B. Lee, the Filipina actress who played the young protagonist's mother in Punch, was elected to South Korea's National Assembly in 2012 as a proportional representative, the first Filipina and naturalized Korean to become a lawmaker.
- Countries such as the Philippines expressed disapprobation and reproach over Punch's portrayals of migrant workers, and the reproach gave rise to anti-Korean sentiment.
- Director Lee Han said in a Q&A after the world premiere at the Busan International Film Festival that Lee Ho-jeong, who was not in the original novel, was added as the love interest of high school teacher Lee Dong-ju to allow the audience to empathize with him more.
- One change from the novel: the ethnicity of Wan-deuk's mother, who was Vietnamese in the book, was changed to Filipina in the film Punch.
