Friends (2002)
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Details
- Title: フレンズ / 프렌즈
- Title (English): Friends
- Format: Tanpatsu in two parts
- Genre: Romance
- Episodes: 4
- Broadcast network: TBS / MBC
- Broadcast period: 2002-Feb-04 and 2002-Feb-05 (TBS) / 2002-Feb-15 and 2002-Feb-16 (MBC)
- Air time: Monday & Tuesday 21:00-23:09 (TBS) / Friday & Saturday 21:55 (MBC)
- Original Soundtrack: Friends (2002) OST
Synopsis
Left alone on a trip to Hong Kong, Tomoko (Fukada Kyoko) finds herself the victim of a purse-snatching. The police arrest the man she points out, but it turns out to be the wrong person: a young Korean man named Ji Hoon (Won Bin). Despite his anger and humiliation, he takes her out to dinner since she has lost all her money, and in return, she agrees to model for his amateur film. What follows is a magical and romantic two days. Upon returning to their respective countries, Tomoko must return to her nine-to-five job and Ji Hoon must resume studying to join the family business rather than pursuing his dream of becoming a film director. But soon the two begin to email each other and rekindle their relationship despite the distance and obstacles between them. Marking the very first time in television history that a drama has been co-produced between Japan and South Korea, the story shows us that love has no borders.
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Cast
- Won Bin as Kim Ji Hoon
- Fukada Kyoko as Asai Tomoko
- Persons around Ji Hoon
- Lee Dong Gun as Park Kyung Joo (Ji Hoon's friend)
- Han Hye Jin as Park Hye Jin (Kyung Joo's sister)
- Lee Ho Jae as Ji Hoon's father
- Sun Woo Eun Sook as Ji Hoon's mother
- Choi Ran as Ji Hoon's aunt (ep1)
- Persons around Tomoko
- Yada Akiko as Yamagishi Yuko (colleague/friend)
- Ozawa Yukiyoshi as Sakamaki Shouta (colleague/admirer)
- Toda Naho as Kaneda Midori (friend at language school)
- Takeshita Keiko as Asai Satoko (Tomoko's mother)
- Kondo Yoshimasa as Tomoko's supervisor in Tokyo
- Kuroda Fukumi as Tomoko's supervisor in Seoul
Production Credits
- Producer: Isano Hideki, Setoguchi Katsuaki, Take Keiko (武敬子), Kang Byung Moon
- Director: Doi Nobuhiro, Han Chul Soo
- Assistant Director: Park Soo Chul
- Screenwriter: Okada Yoshikazu, Hwang Sun Young (황선영)
- Music: REMEDIOS