If you loved A Love, try Friend: The Great Legacy
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Both films are directed by Kwak Kyung-taek, and they both carry the foreign gem mood tag, and they sit in Action / Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to A Love, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
What Friend: The Great Legacy is
You're a man serving time for a crime tied to a dead friend's name, and then you meet his son behind bars, silent on who you really are. The two of you forge a pact to rise up once free. In the end it’s not violence that breaks the bond but a single revealed truth. The film moves like a 90s Korean thriller, rough-edged and lean, leaving silence heavier than any score.

