From award-winning Cannes Venice Toronto selected director Brillante Mendoza, GENSAN PUNCH is inspired by the true story of a Japanese man with a prosthetic leg who traveled to the Philippines to train and become a professional boxer.
An unadorned perspective on impoverished life in Okinawa. 17-year-old Aoi works as a nightclub hostess in order to earn rent money and to provide for her little boy and his lazy father, who has no qualms about hitting his wife. Yet how d…