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Friends (2002)
spoilers for those who didn't get to watch this...
it starts out with Tomoko coming to Hong Kong with her friend. her friend ditches her cos she wants to see her bf n only asked Tomoko to come along cos if not, her parents won't allow her to go to Hong Kong on her own. anyway, on her own, Tomoko's handbag gets snatched as she window-shops. Kelly Chen plays the salesgirl of the shop Tomoko was looking at. Tomoko looks for the snatch thief n mistakes Jihun as the thief cos they are wearing the same jacket. bad enough that Jihun gets dragged to the police station by the cops, he's also there when Tomoko actually sees the real snatch thief. being the gentleman, he helps her, but gets punched by the snatch thief. Tomoko is penniless, hungry n knows nobody in Hong Kong. Jihun brings her to his aunt's restaurant out of pity but tells his aunt to prepare really spicy n hot food, which Tomoko turns out to love. in return, Tomoko is to star in his 'looking for love' movie. Jihun is an aspiring movie director but has to give up his dreams cos he has to take over his family's business. at the end of their stay in Hong Kong, they exchange email adds. back in japan, Tomoko hates her job as a sales girl. she contacts Jihun via email n they keep in touch. inspired by this young Korean guy, Tomoko learns the Korean language to communicate wif him. they try to meet up a couple of times, n almost never make it. Tomoko gets a job as a tourist guide n meets with Jihun more often. Jihun's parents find out that he's still into movie directing and that his girlfriend is a Japanese. Tomoko and Jihun break up when Tomoko finds out that Jihun was going to give up movie directing just so his parents would approve his relationship with Tomoko. in the end, Jihun becomes a great movie director n goes back to japan to woo Tomoko. it's really sweet! behind the scenes: Kyoko and won bin do not have any chemistry going on between them. kyoko had to learn some Korean cos her script demanded it. in the show, we are made to think that jihun learns Japanese to communicate with Tomoko, but in real life, won bin only knows a few Japanese words cos his script didn't need him to learn Japanese. in the show, we are made to think that Jihun is a clean goody kid, but in between scenes, apparently this guy smokes like a chimney. in Hong Kong, paparazzi tried to take his pic cos one pic of him can sell 40,000 copies. when shooting in Hong Kong, many people crowded when won bin came. fans will always be fans.