Ping Pong
It’s quite amazing that a film called “Ping Pong” about… yep, you guessed it, ping pong, could be so good.
At a guess the first thing anybody will think of after having seen Ping Pong is—Rocky. The film isn’t particularly groundbreaking; there have been plenty of films made about sports, competition, falling behind to eventually overcome the odds and be the champion.
But somehow this film is a little different—it manages to encorporate a “hero” with a mask and everything. It brings a whole new perspective to a game that, to me, looked to be little more than knocking a little piece of crappy white plastic about the place.
For me, I think it is the emotion that does it—it’s not quite as good as Rocky but it comes very close, and that is seriously impressive considering these people aren’t battling it out in such a literal sense.
Well worth watching, even if Japanese films don’t usually take your fancy (or maybe I’m just getting too used to reading subtitles that it couldn’t matter what language a film is in any longer?)
Check out what IMDb has got to say about the film at www.imdb.com/title/tt0328258/
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