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- A composer and his wife are thrown into turmoil when a housemaid becomes more than they bargained for.
- Earthquakes in central Korea turn out to be the work of Yongary, a prehistoric gasoline-eating reptile that soon goes on a rampage through Seoul.
- A country bumpkin (Dong-shik) goes to Seoul in order to bring his older brother (Young-shik)back to the country. Little does he know Young-shik is a petty crook involved with a prostitute (Sonia) who is servicing American GIs. Then Sonia comes onto Dong-shik...
- A pressured accountant, his war veteran brother and their dysfunctional family struggle with integrating into post-War Korean society.
- An investor planning on developing a tourist resort begins an investigation into the legends of the mysterious Io Island in the hope of exploiting its unspoiled beauty.
- Lee Shin-ja is a young widow, subject to the prejudices against her position in society. Trying to provide for her daughter as well as find love, Lee becomes entangled in the lives of her late husband's friend, his wife, and her lover.
- A story that follows the lives and interactions of two Buddhist monks living in South Korea.
- A couple who work together live in secrecy that they are planning to marry. Pak is more of a traditionalist and so Lee wanders the streets in frustration, until she looses everything. On the day scheduled for the wedding they take the train to Pak's hometown. Will her experiences on the street keep Lee in line, or will she shun a future with such a dull husband?
- A schoolgirl goes from braids to bouffant when her mother makes her a bar hostess/prostitute. She cures impotence for Professor Lee and becomes his concubine. His entrepreneurial wife is initially shocked but soon accepts the arrangement and even gives the girl and allowance.
- A young filmmaker and his crew struggle to bring the famous Korean story of Chunghyang to the big screen. Torn between two very different women and facing financial ruin, the director makes a rash and foolish choice in order to realize his dreams.
- A detective investigating a murder follows a convoluted trail littered with treachery, ruined lives, and tragedy.
- The tale of Chun-Hoo, a young Korean man desperate to join the Japanese Army.
- A painter quits his job and looks to an old acquaintance for work and a place to stay.
- The film exposes the atrocities of war through the eyes of two children who are stranded in the DMZ after the end of the Korean War. The DMZ, strewn with abandoned tanks, dead bodies, land mines, and unexploded shells, is an exceedingly dangerous place for children. But what most endangers them in the end are not weapons but people.
- A special boy is born on a day where hurricanes and wicked spirits struck medieval Korea. The citizens and family learn that the infant has super human strength and cunning intelligence. As the boy grows up, he vows to his family, the emperor of Korea and the high deities to rid Korea of chaos and disorder caused by wicked beings.
- 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 guerrilla. The film flashes back to their tragic pasts to explain how they arrived where they are.
- At an ocean side village, many fishing boats never return from the high sea, and many of the women in the village assume they are widows when their husbands never return. One of them, Seongku, begins an affair with a coal worker.
- Prior to the adoption of Confucianism, it was the tradition to abandon one's parents on a mountainside if they were over 70 years of age. In the ancient kingdom of Goryeo, now modern Korea, a nobleman defies this tradition when he refuses to leave his mother to starve to death.
- About a poor farmer whose bid for a better life ends up bringing calamity to his family. At the urging of loan shark Eok Jo (Choi Nam Hyun), Bong Su (Kim Seung Ho) sells his cows to start a business but he loses everything to a conman (No Kyung Hee). Bong Su accidentally kills Eok Jo in a fight and takes his money, and the police trace the crime back to Bong Su's son.
- Do-seong is a child monk who lives at a small mountain temple with the head monk, learning the teachings of Buddha. He becomes attached to a young widow who comes to pray at the temple, and the childless widow entreats the head monk to let her raise Do-seong as her own son.
- In Japanese occupied Korea, a morally conflicted Japanese officer is sent to the house of a Korean man who refuses to change his family name to a Japanese name.
- A woman abandons her husband and daughter to live in a hotel with her lover who turns out to be something other than the honest businessman she thought he was.
- Jo Doo-soo, a member of a gang, comes across and helps Joanna, a college student who is about to have her handbag robbed by the bullies on her way home.
- Two lovers face a bleak future in 1960s Seoul.
- This film of love, desire, betrayal and revenge follows a young man as he seeks his fortune on the streets of Seoul.
- A brigade of 5 marines are sent on a dangerous mission to capture an enemy stronghold during the Korean War
- A division of marines survive a battle with the Chinese army but find themselves stranded without contact on the wrong side of the front.
- A family, ideologically divided but living under the same roof, experience the Korean War as tragedies shake their daily existence.
- The wife of a gangster, discarded after she is raped by another man, turns to prostitution.
- Follows the trials and tribulations of schoolboy Young-Dal as he struggles to find the money to pay for his education.
- Myeong-ja, a flower vendor in Seoul, and her young brother Yong-pil, are orphans who have been taken in by some very bad people. Yong-pil finds refuge in a private orphanage and Myeong-ja takes her chances with a flower customer.
- After an aggressive man lets his anger get the better of him, his wife takes her own life and he is forced to go on the run. The son he leaves behind grows up to have 4 daughters, but there is rumored to be a curse on his family.
- A married man who moved to live in Seoul for a better life visits the small town where he grew up and falls in love with a local girl.
- At the idea of and with the assistance of her drama-loving detective-novel reading friend, penniless and desperate So-yeong cons a congressman into believing she is his lost daughter. As So-yeong completes her studies in law school, the suspicious congressman's wife does a little detective work of her own. So-yeong, racked with guilt, is determined to become a lawyer who helps women in similar situations as hers, but will she succeed? Or will the truth be revealed?
- After being humiliated for her rude behavior, the self-centered female executive in charge of a woman's magazine, turns around and hires the man simply to satisfy a grudge. Yet every attempt she makes to belittle him, backfires on her.
- The son of a noble Korean family tries to atone for the death of his brother by joining the Imperial Army, leaving behind his pregnant wife in the process.
- The story takes place on a mountain slope where defectors from North Korea live. These families have a serious gap between the parents and their children.
- Leaving prison in hopes of reuniting with his lover, a man finds instead that she has married his childhood rival, a now-crooked businessman.
- After 14 years of self-imposed exile, a man returns to his hometown and discovers it has been dramatically industrialized. He searches for his ex-girlfriend but learns that she is already married to someone else.
- A writer who was disabled during the Korean War (1950-1953) is now contributing a serial to a newspaper. His wife, who once adored him, is tempted by a young man she happens to know. But he overlooks her affair thanking her for her utmost care up until that time. Then the young man asks her to leave with him for a faraway place.
- The Nam family leads a life of upper-middle class luxury. But this wealth lies on unstable foundations, and when the father dies suddenly, Jung-hee, as the new head of the family, finds herself with steep debts and no source of income. At last, she must decide on something that riskier than before.
- A suicidal woman recalls her memories of sexual abuse while on a train ride. On route, she meets a man who may be the key to finding a reason to live.
- This is another film which deals with the suffering of women. Eldest daughter Bun-rye is deeply distressed after she is raped by Yong-pal. To make things worse, she is treated coldly by the impotent Young-chul who received Bun-rye as his second wife.
- An elderly bell maker reminisces about his life filled with tragedy.
- Jeom-yong Kim (Pyeong Wang) is a train conductor who wants to drive a military train. Won-jin (Eun-gi Dog) is his best friend and both live together. When a spy for the resistance approaches Won-jin for information on the Japanese military train in exchange for money, he puts the life of his best friend in danger.
- The tale of a young woman who is seduced away from her poor fishing village only to become a bar girl in the city.
- A lonely old potter saves the life of a young woman. She is grateful to him, but does not return the love he feels for her. However she feels obligated to marry him. In time, her former boyfriend finds her and takes a job working with the potter until he can convince her to run away with him.