Now a days , Mass media is the most important source of knowledge and information and movies are the best type of it. We can see that directors, writers and cinematographers are working hard all around the globe to make movies on sports. As so many sports are already in this category on which so much works or movies are there. Table Tennis is not away from this as there are also some fantastic movies on Table Tennis for the lovers of this mind blowing sport.
1. Balls of Fury
Balls of fury is an american movie released in 2007. Its a comedy movie but whole story of the movie was around the table tennis sport. You'll see mysterious shots and tricks which do not belongs to the real sport but obviously this movie show you the passion, dedication and emotion attached to table tennis in a very comic way. Balls of fury is one of the most watched table tennis related movie and full of entertainment .
2. As One
As One is very creative and full of emotion movie based on true events. This is a Korean movie released in 2012. As One is the story of post war , when North Korea and South Korea Table Tennis Team Participated in major event world table tennis championship as a unified Korea team.
Basically this movie is based on the story of Ri bun-hui from North Korea table tennis team and Hyun jung-hwa from South Korea table tennis team. Always they played in the world tournaments as a strong opponent but both countries decided to make a unified team of 'Korea' then these player forget all their personal anger and criticism and show the amazing team work . Their hard work and dedication worked and finally Korean Team defeated the strongest team China in world table tennis championship 1991 final and won gold medal.
This movie is full of sports sprit, hard work and dreams. As this is based on the story of real players and event so all professional players can connect with this movie.
3. Ping-Pong
This is also a full of entertainment and emotional work. Ping-Pong is a famous Movie from Japan released in 2002. This movie nominated for eight Japan's academics awards in 2003.
Ping-Pong based on the story of two friends who joined school table tennis team. Both of them were hard working and dedicated but they were not the best and defeated by other players in the tournaments. After that they started working more hard . In between this one player from China hired by opponent's so that no one can defeat him. One of the friend played with that Chinese player in inter school tournament and defeated strongly by 21-0. This broke him but he still had dreams and passion . He forget about everything and practised for hours under his coach for some time . After that in next tournament he defeated the Chinese player in first round and other strong player 'Dragon' in semifinals, even after the injury.
At last both friend were able to full fill their dreams , one of them played professionally in some European countries also and other started teaching table tennis professionally.
Ping-Pong movie is full of inspiration and teach us that "no defeat is final until you stop trying" .
These were the movies fully based on Table Tennis Sports , but some other movies are also in which table tennis is included in the story line. 'Forest Gump' and 'Top Spin' movies are also of the same category.
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