Clash (2025)

In 2014, the Chongqing Dockers team made history by winning the very first American football championship in China. "Clash" reconstructs how the Chongqing Dockers were formed. Liu Yong Gan is the young offspring of a family of modest means, selling tofu pudding. He's become famous in the area for being “fast and furious” and is referred to as the Runaway King or Pudding Boy. When he stumbles across a team practice of American football and sees an ad for the Eternity Bowl, the first Chinese championship of the sport promising a prize of one million RMB for the winning team, Liu Yong Gan immediately decides to form a team. He recruits a group of unlikely players from among his acquaintances—an athletic freight hauler experiencing marital problems, a middle-aged corporate manager starting to have sexual insecurity issues, a small-time neighbourhood gangster, a frustrated policeman, etc. The team finds an equally unlikely sponsor in a quirky local mafia boss, and they begin training under a young Mexican coach who was supposedly a professional American football player in Texas but ended up teaching English in a Chongqing primary school. A young nerd well-versed in media communication is recruited to promote the team’s image. When deciding on the team name, since according to local legend, 80 per cent of Chongqing’s population are descendants of the dock workers who used to labour on the Yangzi River, the group decides to proudly adopt the name: they will be called the Chongqing Dockers! (Source: fareastfilm.com; edited by kisskh) ~~ Release date: Feb 6, 2025 (Festival) Edit Translation

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