| Overview: | Involved in a complicated love triangle, the three young people living at the edge of life are about to make life-and-death decisions in "Run 2 U" (2003) directed by Kang Jung-soo, a Korean movie gathering the talents from both Korea and Japan.
The Korean-Japanese Hiroshi (Takahashi Kazuya) is a timid young man working in a club in Tokyo who dreams of becoming a singer one day. His best friend of the same origin Tsuyoshi (Yamashita Tetsuo) acts like his brother but lose secretly his heart to Hiroshi. As a member of the Japanese Mafia Yakuza, the hot-tempered Tsuyoshi used to be loyal until Hiroshi is one day beaten up by Yakuza because he has stood up for another Korean-Japanese being bullied. Tsuyoshi then takes his revenge on Yakuza in terms of betrayal including stealing the group's money from illegal drug traffic and killing his eyesore...
Hiroshi and Tsuyoshi, after fleeing to Seoul Korea, are leading a risky life until Hiroshi meets Kyung-ah (Chae Jung-ahn) at a club. The Korean girl used to indulge herself into alcohol and cigarettes manages to find some peace and quiet from Hiroshi's soothing songs which pull these two lonely souls closely together. But now Tsuyoshi's jealousy starts to grow...
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