So-dol, serving a prison sentence after being accused of murdering his friend, gets a 7 day leave from the prison when his mother dies. As soon as he and the guard assigned to him arrive in...
A family sells everything they own to ensure the eldest son finishes medical school while the younger son gets nothing and must find work in another country. The oldest son becomes ...
Mi-yeong informs her boyfriend that she is becoming a prostitute to help her poverty striken family. Although she tries not to, she ends up falling in love with wealthy Dae-seon and moves ...
Two Korean college graduates arouse the suspicions of Japanese authorities after modernizing a rural community with a school and a youth hall.
Jum-sun is widowed after only three years of marriage. She now lives with her grandmother-in-law who has very strict, traditional views on how a widow should behave. Jum-sun finds that she ...
Seong-jun comes to live in the southern part of Korea before the nation is divided. Out of loyalty to his northern home, he refuses to take sides in political discussions and people begin ...
Kama village is overrun by the North Korean army during the Korean war and the villagers are forced to surrender. Man-bok, the village idiot, adopts the ways of his conquerors with glee, ...
Immediately following the Korean War, a group of idealistic college students cross the DMZ. Their dreams of reunification are quickly shattered when the men are immediately drafted into the...
A man studies law to help his brother and his family who have been falsely accused of murder in Japan.
A bitter, conflicted former-shaman is begged by villagers to resume her religious practices in order to save their village from famine.
Kang-su joins the navy at the time when it was being recreated after liberation from Japanese rule. As time passes, he advances through the ranks. His daughters marry naval officers but his...
A man nicknamed Shilasoni, (meaning Tiger Cub), fights against the Japanese occupying forces in Korea. He is unsuccessful and is forced to flee to China where he continues to fight oppression.
Cha's meeting with the beautiful Mi-yeong is misunderstood by his family. His wife, furious at his behavior, packs up and moves to Pusan while his son, disgusted with his father, leaves home for Seoul
A man wears a camilla sent to him by his former lover upon his release from prison. He later learns that she has been killed and that her husband is a North Korean spy. Taking the code-name...
Two ruined, old adversaries meet in a rehab center and reassess the conflict that dominated their lives since the Korean War. One man is a former cop and the other is a former communist ...
Kanemodo is severly injured by the man whom he considered his father because he refused to join the communist party. His girlfriend, Genichi, goes to Seoul intending to reveal information ...
A woman unknowingly marries a drug dealer and gradually finds herself being drawn into his activities.
Mosaic portrait of people living in an impoverished neighborhood in Seoul.
Popular singer, Hun, falls in love with Oh Su-mi. She is extremely jealous of other women and demands that Hun give up singing so she can have him for herself.
A man from a shamanistic upbringing, tries to come to terms with the spirit of his mother who visits him in dreams.