The pain while practicing. Feeling of meaning in life. Goal setting. The care, the guidance, the helping hand of someone who trust the talented young people. Free the spirit.
Poor family background. Family love. Fatherly love. Talented. Need guidance, faith and trust. Practice, hardship, determination ... inner struggle and feeling. Pure little puppy love. Sweet and beautiful movie.
Coming of age theme, a teenager almost at the edge of becoming a runway kid coming to terms with difficulties of family, school life, uncertainties about future, about coming to terms with them, finding his dream and pursuing them.
Both main leads in both movies are “Kopino”- mixed race Korean and Pilipino. . Both has Filipino mother. Both were very poor. Both became boxer or got into boxing fighting
Both Korean movie has a unconventional teacher that inspired a young boy to a successful future. Both movies has a character that either full or half Filipino background.
The main lead(s) from underprivileged background, due to poverty, takes a cough to bring out a young man, make them strong, have sense of purpose, a second chance
Both involved teacher and young student relationship.
Both movies the teachers has his share of problem painful past
The teachers open up his mind, was touch by the young man’s soft hearts.
Their friendship growth.
Both are heartwarming movie/drama
Great cast, struggle to grow up, cute classmate, the puppy cute innocent couple, hardworking father, father that do not know how to express love, smart young man in the town, big heart, sweet
