Jump Ashin!

Jump Ashin!

2011 · 126 min · ZH · 6.7 (20 votes)
Dir. Lin Yu-Hsien · Starring Eddie Peng Yu-Yan, Lawrence Ko, Zaizai Lin, Hank Chen Han-Dian, Lung Siu-Wah, Pan Li-li
Drama

Ashin has spent his enitre life training for the national team in gymnastics. His mother believes his work will amount to nothing and asks his high school coach to take him off the team. Ashin then quits the sport entirely. He quickly falls in with wrong crowd and finds himself in a lot of trouble. Ashin leaves his small hometown of Yilan. Will he ever get back to the sport that he loves?

VIBE

This film feels like a quiet, introspective journey through youthful disillusionment and the struggle to find one's path. It's a raw, character-driven drama that captures the bittersweet ache of lost dreams and the quiet hope for a second chance.

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