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:
“Our ability to fall in love requires enough comfort with our masculinity to join it with someone’s femininity and feel enhanced. . . . If our mother made us feel secure and proud in our masculinity, then we want to find that again in our wife. If we are really comfortable with our mother, we can even marry a woman who is a friend rather than an adversary, and form a true partnership.”
—Frank Pittman (20th century)