翻滾吧! 阿信 Jump Ashin! (w/Eng sub, Part 2/2) 2011

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Jump Ashin! is a Taiwanese film directed by Lin Yu Hsien (林育賢) and stars Eddie Peng Yu Yan (彭于晏), Lawrence Ko Yu Luen (柯宇綸), and Zaizai Lin Chen Xi (林辰唏). It is based on the TRUE STORY of a gymnastics coach, Lin Yu Shin, who is Lin Yu Hsien’s brother, about his rebellious youth and the difficult comeback journey to pursue his dream as a gymnast. The film is a follow-up of Lin Yu Hsien’s documentary Jump! Boys (2004) about the gymnastics team his brother coached in an elementary school in Yilan.

Ashin, a young man from Yilan in northern Taiwan, was a member of the school gymnastics team. He was talented and his coach had high hopes that he would become a great gymnast in the future. Knowing her son is slightly handicapped with one leg shorter than the other, Ashin’s mom pulled him out of the gymnastics team without telling him the reason why. Disheartened Ashin stayed home and helped her mom run the fruit shop.

He and his best friend Pickle (Lawrence), who was a drug addict, picked up fights here and there on the streets. The brief telephone conversations he had with the paging operator girl were his only comfort in life, though he did not know the girl No. 599 in person.

Ashin and Pickle soon got themselves in trouble again and had to take the freight train to escape to Taipei.

One night when they knocked down Papaya (陳漢典Chen Han Dian), the son of the local gang boss Mr. Pine (龍劭華 Lung Shao Hua). In Taipei, Ashin and Pickle joined a gang led by Master Kun (林宏杰 Lin Hung Chieh). Though Ashin would like to go back to Yilan, Pickle was reluctant. The violent death of Pickle on the street resulted Ashin making up his mind to return to Yilan to pursue his dream as a gymnast.

Ashin returned to Yilan and regained his belief in gymnastics. Thanks to the support of his former coach and Boss Pine, who was also a gymnast when he was young. Ashin was forgiven and resumed training.

The film ends with information about and photos of the real Ashin (Lin Yu Shin). He won the gold medal in the international gymnastics competition held in Taiwan in 1994.