South Korea Synopsis
이웃사촌
“During the day friendly neighbour. At night suspicious wiretapping team. Enemy? or Friend?”
Daekwon is the team leader of the surveillance team on the verge of getting a demotion. His mission is to be as an unemployed head of a household and monitor the politician's family who's been house arrested right after arrival from abroad for 24 hours a day with his team. Members of the surveillance team, who have moved into the next door disguised as a neighbor, discover secrets one by one, through monitoring all the sounds and behaviors of suspicious family members, from requests for a radio show to midnight rustling noises…
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The 2019–2021 South Korea Window
Best Friend holds position #63 of 261 South Korea films in the 2019–2021 window, below highlighted by audience rating.
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★ 8.6 · 2020
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★ 8.6 · 2020
#7Parasite
★ 8.5 · 2019
#8True Beauty
★ 8.5 · 2020
The 2020s South Korea Landscape
Catalog density by release year across the 2020s in South Korea, 301 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Best Friend premiered alongside 89 others.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 89 other South Korea films in 2020.
The 1175th South Korea title from South Korea we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1955).
Our South Korea catalog contains 1,397 titles in total (931 films).
Audience Engagement
15 audience reviews — more than 29% of South Korea films in our index.
Popularity sits at the 17th percentile among South Korea films.
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on Best Friend, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- presidential election · 2
- kim dae-jung · 2
- house arrest · 1
- chief of police · 1
- korean democracy · 1
- korean dictatorship · 1
- corruption · 29
- bromance · 13
- korea president · 9
- self sacrifice · 8
- ambition · 7
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #210 of 1,397 South Korea films indexed here (85th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is +1.0 points above the South Korea average of 6.9/10.
Among South Korea Drama productions specifically: #152 of 868 (top 18%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | South Korea |
|---|---|
| Original Language | Korean |
| Production Companies | Little Big Pictures, 시네마허브, 환타지엔터테인먼트, Trinity Pictures |
| Runtime | 2h 4m |
| Release Date | November 25, 2020 |
| IMDb | tt6985320 |