Friend (2001 Film)
Friend (친구 Chin-gu) is a 2001 South Korean film directed by Kwak Kyung-taek. At one time, it was the highest-grossing South Korean movie of all time, but has since been surpassed by Silmido, Taegukgi, The King and the Clown, Speedy Scandal and The Host. It has since been remade into a TV series by MBC. A part of the music was composed by Belgian composer Luc Baiwir.
This film is the director's experience about his friends, a semi-autobiography set in his hometown, Busan, and the actors speak with a strongly accented Busan dialect. The film changed the public images of Jang Dong-gun and Yu Oh-sung; previously, Jang had been famous for romantic comedies and Yu had appeared in movies with mostly cult interest.
Famous quotes containing the word friend:
“My Friend is not of some other race or family of men, but flesh of my flesh, bone of my bone. He is my real brother.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)