Friend (2001) on Netflix
Four boys from different families grow up together in Busan: Joon-seok, whose father leads a crime organization, Dong-su, Jung-ho and Sang-taek. School ends and their paths divide.
- Netflix2.5/5
- IMDb7.2/105,597 votes
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Plot summary
Joon-seok, Dong-su, Jung-ho and Sang-taek spend their childhood together in Busan. Joon-seok's father heads a crime organization; Dong-su is an undertaker's son; Jung-ho is the group's clown and Sang-taek the model student. Split apart in middle school, they reunite in high school, drawn to the singer of a girls' band their own age. Joon-seok holds a party at his home for the band, and Sang-taek gets his first kiss from the singer, Jin-sook. A run-in with a teacher lands Joon-seok and Dong-su in trouble; after their friends urge them to apologize, they receive only a light suspension. At the movies, a boy Sang-taek fought earlier brings a rival school down on them; Jung-ho shields Sang-taek while Joon-seok and Dong-su hold the others off. Dong-su smashes the school's trophy cases and quits.
Cast
- Kim Hyun-jias Tall Woman
- Yoo Seung-ilas Child Joon-seok
- Namhee Kwonas Sang-taek's Mother
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Friend (2001)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Friend became the highest-grossing South Korean movie up to that time on its release, and its record stood until the 2003 film Silmido surpassed it.
- The film is a semi-autobiography drawn from the director's own experiences with his friends, set in his hometown of Busan, and the actors speak in a strongly accented Busan dialect.
- The film changed the public images of Jang Dong-gun and Yu Oh-seong, who had until then been known for romantic comedies and for mostly cult-interest movies respectively.
