A man nicknamed 'Magpie' kills his former best friend Geun-ho. As Geun-ho dies, he begs Magpie to care for his younger brother which the murderer agrees to do.
Yeon-ha is charged with adultery by her husband, but as events of her unhappy and violent marriage are revealed, the court comes to sympathize with her.
While searching for his fiance who left him while he was overseas, a man meets and falls in love with a second woman.
Sam-po is a gambler living without concern for how his wife will manage their houselhold without his earning money. In order to get food and provisions, his wife An-hyeob, sleeps with ...
Viscious loan sharks and their extortion thugs harass the shopkeepers in the entertainment district. When Dolai's singers are threatened, he goes into action against the gangsters
Chi-geun's wife is beautiful and loyal despite his lowly job and reputation as the village idiot. A group of local boys, jealous of Chi-geun, report him to the Japanese police as a member of the Korean resistance
Freedom fighter Sam-po learns that his location has been discovered by the Japanese police so he flees in the night but not before leaving his girlfriend, Ahn Ak, behind as collateral on ...