![]() ![]() This is not a Japanese Rocky story but a powerful gut punch, one the sport can deliver on and off the canvas. In Keisuke Yoshida’s poignant boxing film, Blue, the title refers not only to the corner of the ring - the favored team of fighters gets the red side - but to the emotional and physical state of the competitors and their loved ones. ![]() He looked at his granddaughter and said, “I won these off your father and brothers. The red corner always wins.” He opened up a drawer to reveal dozens and dozens of nickels. Grandpa Joe said, “We’re betting a nickel a match, and I’m taking the red corner. Several decades ago, when my now-wife and I were visiting her paternal grandfather in Florida, he challenged us while watching the Friday night fights. Ogawa Kazuki (Higashide Masahiro) is on a difficult path in Keisuke Yoshida’s Blue
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