2004 · drama · sport · hongkong
Throw Down
Directed by Johnnie To1h 36m2004
A former Judo champion is given the chance to redeem himself after he befriends a competitor and an aspiring singer.
Our read: Throw Down (2004) reads as a warm, steady, grounded drama · sport · hongkong entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Warm, steady, measured drama / sport, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- intimate
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