De in ongenade gevallen pingpong kampioen Randy Daytona (Dan Fogler) wordt opnieuw het illegale pingpong-circuit ingezogen als hij gerecruteerd wordt door CIA-agent Ernie Rodriquez (George Lopez) voor een geheime missie. Randy zal undercover een toernooi moeten winnen. Een toernooi dat jaarlijks georganiseerd wordt door maffia-leider Feng (Christopher Walken). Het is gebruikelijk dat de verliezers van het toernooi geëxecuteerd worden.
As children, the introverted Smile was being bullied by a gang of kids until the brash Peco comes by and chases all of them them away. Peco then takes Smile under his wings and teaches him how to play the game of ping pong. From there a life long best friend relationship comes into existence between these two polar opposite kids.
A unified team representing the two Koreas competed at the 1991 Chiba International Table Tennis Championships. It was the first such sport team since the division of the Korean peninsula. The unified team won the group competition event, beating the front runner, China.
To get revenge on her ex-boyfriend and to help revive her late mother's tennis table club, a table tennis prodigy decides to take part in a mixed doubles table tennis tournament.
Korte film: Arthur 'Art' Prince probeert te ontsnappen aan zijn verder onopvallende leven door de 'Sting-Pong'-scene te domineren in een plaatselijke undergroundclub. Wanneer er echter plotseling een mysterieuze uitdager verschijnt, wordt Art gedwongen zijn zelfdestructieve neigingen onder ogen te zien.
In 1985 a summer vacation in Ocean City, Md., changes the life of a shy white teen who's obsessed with table tennis and hip-hop music.
Haas en hert zijn twee dikke vrienden. Getekende vrienden, die enkel bestaan op papier. Ze amuseren zich reuze met z’n tweetjes maar op een dag beseft Hert dat er een andere wereld bestaat. Hij wordt heel nieuwsgierig en gaat op zoek naar een formule om uit de tekening, in het echte leven te stappen. En dat lukt hem! Hert is superblij. Maar hoe geraakt hij nu terug bij zijn vriendje Haas?
Three teenagers battle their way through the world of competitive ping pong with their hearts set on the Olympics.
Bilike has never seen a ping-pong ball before. He and his family live without electricity and running water in a solitary tent home among the vast steppe grasslands. The magnificent landscape here has changed little since the days of Genghis Kahn. But life in the middle of nowhere can be exciting for a young boy. The smallest of details become big events for curious Bilike and his best friends Erguotou and Dawa. The mystery of the small white ball floating in the creek leads to questions about the world around them, as well as innocent mischief.
A middle-aged man walks up to young man who is sitting under a tree and shoots him. The film then flashes back to 1981, where a young woman steals a car with a baby strapped inside. She decides to raise the child as her own, and teaches him to shoplift from stores while she works as a prostitute. She strikes up a relationship with a convenience-store clerk, and the two eventually settle down together.
An experimental sports film made partly during the Scandinavian Open Championships in Halmstad in 1970, partly during the Chinese players' exhibition tour in Denmark immediately after the SOC. First of all, it is a film about their style, about the artistic culmination that is ping-pong at its best, it records China's comeback into the international sports world.
A young journalist befriends a businessman and learns that after his dream of becoming a Ping-Pong player was cut short, he escaped to Hong Kong in search of a better life. Inspired by his story, the journalist decides to pursue her dreams.
A table tennis documentary about the work the Swedish national team did in the 70's and 80's leading trying to find a way to break the seemingly impenetrable Chinese Wall.
Everyday a woman feverishly practices ping pong by herself. She play ping pong to distract herself from the reality of her life which includes the occasional sexual harrasment at work. A chance encounter one night slowly begins to change her world.
A young kid infects a girl and then the two start attacking, biting and infecting everybody else.
A man plays table tennis with a robot. During the course of the game the robot increasingly take on human mannerisms and becomes competitive. Soon, they both realize the game is no longer about winning.
Les D'Arcy is a living legend. At 89 years old, he's obviously not received the memo about slowing down, and is going for gold, literally. He's headed to China to compete in the over 80s Table Tennis Championships in Inner Mongolia. A seven time world champion, he still lifts weights to train - something he's been doing for decades, after surviving a sickly childhood. Of course compared to some, Les is a spring chicken. Australian legend Dorothy deLow is 100, and finds herself a mega celebrity in this rarefied world. She'd better watch out though- Texan Lisa Modlich is fifteen years her junior and is determined to do what it takes to win her first gold. Director Hugh Hartford follows eight players from five countries, as they prepare to compete in this extraordinary sporting event that is as much about the tenacity of the human spirit as it is about taking home the title.
Een kroniek van de laatste drie jaar van het leven van Marty Reisman. Een tafeltenniskampioen die oplichter werd. Op zoek naar bekendheid en gemotiveerd door zijn liefde voor roem en pingpong, moet hij zijn grootste angst onder ogen zien: sterfelijkheid.
1980 Japanese film distributed by Shochiku.
With dreams bigger than his small stature, a rural rabbit named Robb hurls himself in pursuit of his province’s biggest prize, a storied ‘Jade Table’ awarded annually to the finest ping pong player in the land. Standing in his path is the fact that rabbits don’t play ping pong, and the province’s perennial champion is a ruthless monkey who uses the Jade Table to amass power and wealth, with no plans to relinquish either. Robb must prove that rabbits will no longer run scared, and that his improbable ping pong dreams will change not only his future, but also the fate of his entire province.