Going to Seoul with dreams of opening her own beauty salon, but with no money to start out with, a young woman is befriended by an old madam who plans to make her a prostitute. Escaping ...
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 ...
Hwang-cheol misunderstands that his enemies are the Japanese colonial police after his gold is stolen, but he eventually realizes that his wealth has been taken by gangsters from Shanghai.
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 chivalrous thief robs from smugglers and gives to the needy.
An orchestra conductor becomes acquainted with a woman who promises to break up with her boyfriend when he returns from military service. However, when her boyfriend returns blinded in an ...
Beijing Kang was formerly a member of the Japanese secret police but, after the withdrawal of troops from mainland Asia at the end of WWII, he became a gangster. Kang kidnaps the daughter ...
A former gangster renounces his ways and leads his gang to become patriotic and upstanding citizens after witnessing the student uprising of April 1960.
An elderly couple, proud of their sons-in-law, are shocked to hear that they might be cheating on their wives. The couple are determined to get to the bottom of the rumors
One of the king's generals, dissatisfied with his stipend, begins a rebellion but meets fierce resistance from a commander who remains loyal to the king.
A man's ambition, drive and will to live gradually leave him as do the employees at his unproductive oil field.
Woneko, the chief warlord of the Yeojin tribes, makes a raid on the palace of the Yo Kingdom and makes off with Princess Ok-hwa.
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 ...
An omnibus of stories centered on the lives and emotions of people who ride on the same bus daily.
Shin does his best to win back the love of his ex-girlfriend, Hong, who has taken up with an 80-year old man
A couple is seperated during their flight China ahead of the invading Japanese army.
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 ...
In ancient Korea, a man passes the state examination and is appointed the governor of Pyeonyang by the king. However his punishment of the former governor is so severe, that he hetoo is ...
A detective goes undercover as a mine engineer in order to trap a murderer.
The wife of a man suffering from a spinal disorder starts to look around at her options for a man who can satisfy her lonliness and frustration.