Based on the life of Kim Won-shik who was a judge in ancient Korea. Travelling around the country, he tried cases involving human sacrifices, peasant uprisings, and revenge
The poor farmers of Muju in Cheonbuk Province cannot get enough water to irrigate their rice. They attempt many times to build a canal to the Geum River, but fail each time. After the military coup of 1962 however, the government gives its full support and helps the villagers succeed
A corrupt official disguises himself as the Robin Hood-like Iljimae and attempts to steal a golden Buddha. The monks who own the statue learn of the plot and alert the real Iljimae.
Flower on the Equator is a suspense film with a hint of the classic Hitchcock film Rear Window, with its theme about the isolation of alienated people living in the city.
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. ...
Three underworld leaders search for lost gold in Hong Kong.
Jewel thief Cheol-woo evades the police by escaping to a remote island which he discovers to be populated entirely by widows.
Mrs Yun has been raising her daughter alone since she was divorced from her husband 17 years ago. They had broken up over her husbands one-night stand. When her ex-husband reappears in her ...
Yeong-rim goes to Seoul for the first time when she enters a university there. However, she finds herself facing murder charges when the man who molested when she first arrives turns up dead.
Based on the history of King Taejeong who, before he was king, killed his elder brother thus clearing the way to the throne. His father, King Taejo, was upset and concerned for his own ...
Jang n-cheol is sent to infiltrate Japan to halt an assassination attempt. While there, he meets Ae-ri who has also infiltrated the underworld in order to track down the killer of her parents. The two team up to bring the crime world down
The children of the ministers slain by Queen Min in her bid for power struggle against the corrupt despot as they seek to avenge their parents' deaths
A doctor decides to raise the infant daughter of the insane man who killed his child, but the doctor's wife resents and mistreats the girl.
Yeong and Hyeob are young underground musicians and very much in love until the day wehn Yeong witnesses Hyeob kissing a wealthy fan. She leaves him effectively breaking up their singing ...
Based on the sory of Jeong Ki-ryong. Ki-ryong was appointed by the king to put down the warlord Lim Kyeol-nyeon who was pillaging villages in the southern provinces.
Queen Yun reigned with King Sunjong from when she was just 13 years old. She hid the royal seals needed to complete an agreement between Korea and Japan which would lead to Korea's ...
Myeong-ja has dreams of becoming a wealthy woman and she'll achieve them in any way that she can. She gets her opportunity when she meets Woo-shik. Myeong-ja seduces him, then goes to meet ...
A man returns to a fog enshrouded village where he had recovered from a lung infection many years before. He meets an innocent young girl there and the two fall in love. Their happiness is ...
Jin-ho marries Sakiko, the daughter of a Japanese colonel. When his father-in-law learns that Jin-ho is Korean, he sends the young man to serve in the army in Manchuria where he hopes the ...
The collapse of the Shiila Dynasty causes the region to fall into chaos due to the ambitions of the local nobles, now lording over their charges as kings. Shin Su-kyeong, a former retainer ...