Name: Leap
Genre: Sports, Drama
Released: 2020-09-25
Rating: 9.5
Cast: Gong Li, Huang Bo, Wu Gang, Peng Yu Chang

Gong Li is an award-winning Chinese-born Singaporean actress. She was born on December 31, 1965 in Shenyang, Liaoning, China, and made her acting debut in 1987. One of the most famous actresses of China’s “Fifth Generation” cinema, she has starred in an overwhelming number of award winning films and has been awarded nearly two dozen awards for “Best Actress” and “Best Supporting Actress”. Since her debut, she has appeared in numerous films, including “Flirting Scholar” (1993) and “The Dragon Chronicles - The Maidens of Heavenly Mountain” (1994).

Gong Li

Huang Bo is a Chinese actor and singer who was born on August 26, 1974, in Qingdao, Shandong Province. He graduated from the Beijing Film Academy. He made his debut in the 2000 movie “Get In and Go,” before returning with the smash hit movie “Crazy Stone” in 2006. He has since gone on to become one of China’s most popular actors, and has appeared in numerous drama series titles, including 2010’s “The Outlander.” His more recent movie credits include “Crazy Alien” (2019) and “Lost in Russia” (2020).

Huang Bo

Wu Gang is an award-winning Chinese actor. He was born in Beijing, China, on December 9, 1962, and made his acting debut in 1994. Since then, he has appeared in a wide variety of films and television dramas, including “Leap” (2020).

Wu Gang

Peng Yu Chang is a Chinese actor. Born on October 25, 1994, he made his acting debut in the 2015 television drama “Go Princess Go.” He has since appeared in a number of films and television dramas, including “Men With Swords Season 1” (2016), “Assassin 2” (2017) and “My Mr. Mermaid” (2017).

Peng Yu Chang

At eighteen, Lang Ping (Bai Lang) was a strong-willed young woman with an unwavering passion for volleyball. Enduring the rigorous training of her coach, Yuan Wei Min (Wu Gang), Lang Ping was eventually teamed up with hitting partner, Chen Zhong He (Peng Yu Chang), a slightly disgruntled fellow athlete who has been forced to put his own career aside to assist with the national women’s volleyball team. Working hard to hone her skill, Ping’s dedication eventually elevates her to the position of the team’s star player. With the entire world watching, Ping leads the Chinese Women’s Volleyball Team through a series of wins that culminates in a showdown between China and Japan in the 1981 World Cup.

More than two decades later, Lang Ping (Gong Li) has gone from China’s star player to head coach of Team USA’s women’s volleyball team. After moving to California, Ping went straight to work, preparing her team for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Fully aware that her return to Beijing will bring her face to face with her oldest friend and current head coach of the Chinese Women’s Volleyball Team, Zhong He (Huang Bo), Ping holds nothing back.

After a bittersweet match at the 2008 Olympics, Ping is offered a position as the head coach of her old team. Ready to show the world what she’s made of once again, Ping wastes no time in preparing the Chinese Women’s Volleyball Team for a world-class showdown. But will her unorthodox methods lead to success or failure?

Based on stories spread over more than forty years of the China Women's National Volleyball Team’s history, “Leap” is a 2020 biographical sports film directed by Peter Chan.

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