Movie
Swing Kids
Overview
Rebellious Ki-soo from North Korea is mesmerized by tap dance in prison camps. Ki-soo joins as a team member of a dance team named 'Swing Kids'. Yet suddenly, their dreams about dancing in prison camps are put in danger.
Details
- Release date
- 2018-12-19
- Runtime
- 133 min
- Genres
- Drama, War
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Annapurna Films, Next Entertainment World
- Country
- South Korea
- Original language
- KO
Cast
- Doh Kyung-soo as Roh Ki-soo
- Jared Grimes as Jackson
- Park Hye-su as Yang Pan-rae
- Oh Jung-se as Kang Byung-sam
- Kim Min-ho as Xiao Fang
- Ross Kettle as Brigadier General Roberts
- A.J. Simmons as Jamie
- Song Jae-ryong as Sam-sik
- Lee Kyu-sung as Man-chul
- David Lee as Kwang-kuk
- Kim Dong-gun as Roh Ki-jin
- Park Jin-joo as Linda
Crew
- Kang Hyoung-chul - Director
- Kang Hyoung-chul - Writer
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