A low-level business man finds himself slowly going crazy after his beloved wife dies in childbirth.
After being taken advantage of by a gang of smugglers, a young couple find themselves held hostage. They are subjected to terrible tortures but try to keep their wits so they can find a way to escape
Arai, although born a Korean, chooses a Japanese name and assists the occupying forces in rounding up Korean insurgents until the day he finds his father among the prisoners
The daughter of a loyal member of the communist party defects to South Korea. She marries there unaware that her true love, whom she hasn't seen since the Korean War, is also living in the ...
Once upon a time, under the reign of the three kingdoms, there was a woman who tempts a Buddhist priest named Cho. She is a one-thousand-year-old fox who intends to reincarnate as a human ...
Hyeon In-ho, a ship's captain on leave, becomes acquainted with Kwang-su, a small boy whom he meets at the playground. In-ho is delighted to learn that Kwang-su's mother is a pretty young widow
A man assists a woman in danger, but through her actions, she unintentionally causes his death. Everyone in the village knows that she visits his tomb every spring, but no one knows the ...
A journalist attempts to clear his cousin's name of murder so he begins an investigation into the crime. Discovering that the killing was politically motivated, but lacking proof against ...
Infighting breaks out between factions of the Communist Party over whether to back the U.N. Trusteeship under which the Korean Peninsula is to be divided between U.S. and Soviet control. ...
A man fathered a child with a Japanese woman while Korea was under Japanese control. When Korea becomes liberated in 1945, the lovers were forced to seperate and the man was unable to meet ...
A spy sent to murder a brilliant professor learns to like his gentle target and respect his ideas.
A young man with a high degree of loyalty to his father and country, develops a new fighting style to defend his land from the Japanese.
An omnibus of stories centered on the lives and emotions of people who ride on the same bus daily.
A former gangster renounces his ways and leads his gang to become patriotic and upstanding citizens after witnessing the student uprising of April 1960.
A demon transforms a poisonous white snake into a sensuous woman. She seduces Seong-do, a Buddhist monk, and bears his child. However, she betrays the demon and refuses to kill her family ...
A miserable young man leads a life of lewdness and excess until he meets a kind, older woman who is determined to save him from himself
A comic comparison of three people and the very different lives they lead based on wealth and social status.
A man's ambition, drive and will to live gradually leave him as do the employees at his unproductive oil field.
Messenger Eung-nam is robbed of a large sum of money by bandit couple, Yang-jin and Yong-nyeo. A warrent is issued for the arrest of Eung-nam who is suspected of stealing the money for ...
Thousands of Korean citizens who had fled their homes during the occupation of Korea by Japan, return to their nation following World War II but face the perils of crossing through communist territories in Manchuria.