A woman is blackmailed by her former lover by whom she had borne a child prior to meeting her current husband
A younger brother is the target of abuse at the hands of his older brother. Unable to tolerate his living conditions any longer, he runs away from home
Yeong-yi makes her way south at the outbreak of the Korean War. She joins up with a doomed group of refugees who have the same idea. However, they soon find themselves caught in the ...
A woman feels guilty after taking a job to help out with household expenses while seemingly ingnoring the needs of her family.
Admist a rebellion during the Ching Dynasty in ancient China, a nurse flees the palace with a young prince. As an adult, he convinces the daughter of the usurper to betray her father and to assist in restoring him as the rightful monarch.
A platoon of South Korean soldiers find themselves cut off from their squad without communication. They are aided by an old man in a nearby village who did not evacuate his home.
A man tries to raise his two sons and two daughters under some of the most adverse conditions known to man. The father operates a horse-drawn cart, but in a city that is modernizing after ...
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 ...
An independant student marries against the wishes of his parents with disastrous results
The villagers of Dolmuji in Hwanghae Province suffer terribly under the cruelty of their oppressors in North Korea. Armed with crude farming implements, they rise up against the heavily ...
Son Hak-su (Kim Seung-ho) is a middle school teacher who barely gets by on his income because he's paying off a monthly mortgage for his welfare housing facility sold by the government. One...
A woman seeks revenge on her mother by creating for herself a scandalous marriage, but her plan backfires when she winds up falling in love.
A woman finds that she is having a very difficult time with her father-in-law who stronly disapproves of her past as a kisaeng. After her husbnd's untimely death, she is thrown out of the ...
A rich man encounters many proposals from young ladies when he announces that he wishes to marry soon, but he is in love with the kitchen maid.
A couple seems to have complete happiness...until they learn that one of them is dying.
In order to protect the newly unified China from northern attacks, King Jin-shi orders the Great Wall of China built, unaware that it would eventually bring discontent to his people and ...
A man's family violently opposes his plan to marry a poor girl. The girl's mother is so disappointed and humiliated that she dies. His parents arrange for him to marry a politician's ...
An old bank guard pretends that he is the bank manager in order to save face in front of his daughter's new inlaws. When his employers find out, however, he is fired
A stingy, tyrannical man is cheated out of all his money and becomes a panhandler. Often ranting to himself about his troubles, he wanders around the streets obtaining the reputation of a madman.
Four women participate in a contest in which the prize is to marry a popular entertainer.