Friend

Year:2001

Section:Movies

Genre:Drama, War

Language: Korean

Ethnic Title: 친구

Average Rating:       (out of 2 ratings)

Also Known As: Chin-gu

Friend

Originally posted at http://point2e-reviews.blogspot.com/2005/09/chingoo-aka-friend-kr.html Title Deciphered Chingoo or maybe the spelling is Chingu, in Korean means Friend which is also the international title. Language I got the DVD version with one DVD for the movie and the other DVD for the Making of and interviews. The movie is in Korean but in its local dialect I think with English subtitles. How accurate is the English subtitles I do not know but I believe some words may have been inappropriately translated since some sentences do...

Friend

How long 120 minutes Foreword This movie earned Jang Dong Gun his first film award. Do you wish to know why? Story Friend takes place in the 1970s to the 1990s. There are four friends who are very close together and live in a small town in South Korea. They attend the same high school. Joon-suk (Yu Oh-seong) is a son of a vigilant gang boss who is badtempered. Dong-su (Jang Dong Gun) is the only son of an undertaker. ...