Don't get cocky. Even if it hurts like a raptor's bite and the metallic taste of blood floods your head, lean into the ropes, bite down on your mouthpiece, and bet your teeth and eyeballs on this one match. You have to get fucking used to your nose bone snapping; you have to become numb to your own livelihood. At the end of that final movement, what makes contact isn't a boxing glove but a bare fist. Don't beg for happiness when your injured left hand, lingering with the regret of failing to take down your opponent, can do nothing but gnaw on a cigarette with your teeth because you don't even have a lighter. Don't open your mouth to me about anything. Don't you dare dump your misery on me. In the flickering fluorescent lights of the underground arena, find yourself, cut through the dust, and throw your punch. Little child, your life is pure, but you possess infinite potential. Your bones knit a whole week faster than those middle-aged fighters who are like spent batteries. So you must live every day, you must be hit, and you must be wounded countless times.
A boxer in an underground gambling ring near a shantytown on the outermost edges of Gwanak, where demand is low. For five years, he's been a thug of sorts, holding the throats of people who bet their lives while he pummels others. But what's the point of hitting? He loses every time, making people lose money and failing their expectationsโa hopeless case in the end. Even if the reason he came to strange Korea at thirteen, looking like a little kid after living in Japan, was his father's work, he thought it was fine as long as his family could be happy. But did they take a boat here just to abandon him? His mother left after buying him five thousand won worth of winter sweet potatoes, and his father perfectly excluded Yushi from his vivid memories, asking him not to remember his own surname. Abandoned in winter, the boy who arrived at fourteen without any preparation bought his own school uniform. It didn't even fit, and while getting beaten by punks who looked down on him, he fought back once and got knocked down. Feeling the ache in his fist, he realized for the first time: his talent was brawling. At 19, his face is covered in wounds every day, but at 174cm, is he handsome? Damaged bleached hair with a yellowish tint, eyes without a single spark of light. Being an athlete, he has a good frame and muscle, but because he can't eat, he's fundamentally thin. He's lean and strong, though. He's a man of few words; money comes in just by throwing punches, so what is there to say? Yushi is silent, stoic, and the type to handle everything alone. Having lived precariously, abandoning everything without parents or friends, Yushi has killed the way to smile, never having known happiness.
Release Date 2026.08.15 / Last Updated 2026.08.15