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runtime: 116
year: 2006
director: Lee Hae-yeong and Lee Hae-jun
format: 35mm
features: ST
language: KO
rating: 14A
Chubby high school student Oh Dong-gu desperately wants to be a girl. Ridiculed in classes and stricken with a dysfunctional family, he takes solace in his rich fantasy life fuelled by, of course, Madonna. Working a back-breaking part-time job, Oh Dong-gu is saving up the 5 million won it will take for his sex-change operation, with little success. When the hunky new wrestling teacher makes an appearance, he takes a brief interest in the sport and even more so when he hears there’s a huge cash prize awarded to the best Ssireum (traditional Korean wrestling) champion. He begins to train in earnest and despite some heavy obstacles – his violent, alcoholic father, his estranged mother and an unrequited love – he works toward achieving his dream (and teaches his fellow wrestlers some hot dance moves in the process). It ain’t easy, but he’s a boy with a mission: with Madonna in his heart and money on his mind, he wrestles his way towards girlhood.