Yeon-shil is the lover of crime boss Dong-il. She pays off one of the boss’s henchmen, Man-ho, with whom she once had an affair; Man-ho is an opium addict, and…
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…
The widow of a nobleman bears a son after having an affair with her servant. The servant and the baby are driven from the home by the woman’s irate in-laws…
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…
A piano composer’s family moves into a new house; when his pregnant wife collapses from working to support the family, he hires a housemaid to help with housework.
In post-Korean War Seoul, a young man from the countryside discovers that his older brother has become romantically involved in a prostitute and has no intentions of returning home.
A sometimes uncomfortable marriage between fact and fiction, this film is part documentary and part drama, mixing actual war footage with reenactments in which real veterans of the Korean War…
