BOXER ボクサー (1977) Review: Losers Building Dreams That They Can Believe In
The director of this film, Shuji Terayama, was an avid boxing enthusiast who even declared that he had learned more about life through boxing than attending school. That philosophy is impregnated during the whole film, a story of lowlives trying to survive in the suburbs of an industrial city full of losers that their only destiny is to die being losers. A pessimistic, darker, and probably more realistic vision of the boxing world than most movies of the genre,that tells the story of an old glory of boxing played by the legendary Bunta Sugawara, who becomes the coach of the man who accidentaly killed his brother in a construction site, in order to make him pay his debt with him and more importantly achieve again boxing glory, but this time as a coach. Here there’s no fanfares or inspirational heroes, just two hopeless losers that need each other to build […]
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