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.
Two young men with high ideals and unrealistic expectations of life quickly learn that they need to lower their standards.
A naive country girl accepts a position in Seoul unaware of how ill-prepared she is in the ways of the world and the free-thinking ways of the city.
A Korean man living in Japan attempts to overcome discrimination and enter the Japanese National Baseball League.
Ji-hye, the daughter of an army captain, receives a treasure map from her father just hours before he is killed by communist guerillas in the mountains near their home. While the communists...
A reporter finds himself torn between differing political beliefs after the Korean liberation from Japan.
A deaf woman boarding with an elderly laborer suffers many hardships upon the latter's death. The old man's son offers to care for her, but she feels she must leave in order to protect the young man's reputation.
Two friends fall in love with the same woman, but when she chooses one over the other, the spurned lover decides to blackmail her.
Chun-ho and his wife Sun-hie wander Korea in search of a way to make a living under Japanese colonial occupation. They settle in a mining village where Sun-hie is forced to put up with her ...