Global EditionASIA 中文雙語Fran?ais
    Lifestyle
    Home / Lifestyle / People

    Movie gets theatergoers all gloved up

    By He Qi | CHINA DAILY | Updated: 2024-03-01 07:54
    Share
    Share - WeChat
    Wang instructs Zhu Tianfu, who plays a boxing coach in the film. CHINA DAILY

    Recent box-office hit YOLO fuels a national surge in popularity for the sport of boxing, He Qi reports in Shanghai.

    If Zou Shiming's winning of multiple world and Olympic boxing championships is seen as a milestone in Chinese boxing history, the recent film Re La Gun Tang — which also goes by the English title YOLO — about an overweight woman rebuilding her confidence through boxing, can be seen as another, and is set to boost the development of the sport in China, according to Wang Dexin, a boxing professor at the Shanghai University of Sport.

    A boxing instructor for over 30 years and Zou's former mentor, Wang served as the technical director of boxing for YOLO, an acronym for "you only live once", which dominated China's box office during the Spring Festival holiday, and which has so far grossed more than 3 billion yuan ($420 million).

    During filming, lead actress, Jia Ling, who also directed the movie, lost 50 kilograms playing the protagonist Du Leying.

    The film's popularity and Jia's success have ignited a fervor for the sport of boxing among moviegoers that has transcended theaters.

    Data from e-commerce platform Meituan shows that online searches related to "boxing" increased 388.4 percent year-on-year in the week following the movie's premiere on Feb 10, and the consumer review platform Dianping saw a 337.53 percent increase in related comments.

    Keyword searches, such as "adult boxing", "trial boxing class", and "female boxing" have seen a tenfold year-on-year increase. Shanghai ranks highest in search volume, the data shows.

    Wang is also an instructor for referees accredited by the International Boxing Federation and a member of the Asian Boxing Confederation's Referees and Judges Commission. Committed to promoting boxing throughout his career, he is gratified by the positive response to the film.

    "The influence of YOLO has achieved levels of promotion and popularization of boxing rarely seen in the past few decades, and I think it will be difficult to surpass in the short term," says Wang.

    While boxing dates back to ancient times and is considered one of the oldest forms of martial arts in the world, China is a latecomer to the development of modern boxing, Wang says.

    1 2 3 Next   >>|
    Most Popular
    Top
    BACK TO THE TOP
    English
    Copyright 1995 - . All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to China Daily Information Co (CDIC). Without written authorization from CDIC, such content shall not be republished or used in any form. Note: Browsers with 1024*768 or higher resolution are suggested for this site.
    License for publishing multimedia online 0108263

    Registration Number: 130349
    FOLLOW US
     
    色欲香天天综合网无码| 亚洲精品无码高潮喷水在线| 亚洲午夜福利AV一区二区无码| av无码免费一区二区三区| 中文字幕视频在线免费观看| 亚洲Aⅴ无码一区二区二三区软件| 中文字幕人妻无码系列第三区| 中文字幕亚洲情99在线| 人妻无码αv中文字幕久久琪琪布 人妻无码第一区二区三区 | 亚洲AV中文无码乱人伦| 亚洲精品无码鲁网中文电影| 日韩在线中文字幕| 亚洲午夜无码久久久久小说| 国产精品无码无需播放器| 亚洲日韩av无码| 成人麻豆日韩在无码视频 | 最近的中文字幕在线看视频| 精品久久久久久无码专区不卡| 亚洲美日韩Av中文字幕无码久久久妻妇| 亚洲乳大丰满中文字幕| 人妻少妇看A偷人无码精品视频| 无码国产福利av私拍| 亚洲一区精品无码| 无码人妻丰满熟妇区96| 区三区激情福利综合中文字幕在线一区亚洲视频1 | 中文字幕无码第1页| 日本中文字幕高清| 日韩成人无码中文字幕| 中文无码精品一区二区三区| 日韩人妻无码精品无码中文字幕 | 国产无码一区二区在线| 国产成人无码专区| 岛国av无码免费无禁网| 国产精品无码无在线观看| AV无码一区二区大桥未久 | 久久亚洲中文字幕精品一区| 亚欧无码精品无码有性视频| 无码国产亚洲日韩国精品视频一区二区三区 | 中文字幕一区一区三区| 中文字幕一区二区三区精彩视频| 久久精品aⅴ无码中文字字幕不卡 久久精品aⅴ无码中文字字幕重口 |