In a time of political and social unrest in nineteenth-century Korea, an uncouth, self-taught painter explores his natural talent amidst the repressive world around him.
Mongryong marries the beautiful Chunhyang without telling his father, the Governor of Namwon. When his father is transferred to Seoul, Mongryong has to leave Chunhyang and finish his exams....
Despite its falling popularity, a father teaches his two children the Korean musical tradition of Pansori (one singer accompanied by one drummer).
A Heroic, yet a tragic life of a fearless man begins! School days filled with fist fights It is at the end of President RHEE Seung-man's Liberal Party regime, and the streets are filled ...
A middle-aged man who has recently lost his wife to cancer indulges in fantasies about a young woman at his work.
Based on the great river story, (Taebaegsanmaek) The Taebaek Mountains chronicles the lasting generational conflict between proprietors and peasants in South Korea.
A number of old family conflicts emerge when a writer returns to his hometown to attend his mother's funeral.
A young woman is tricked into prostitution, thinking she's going to sell beverages at a village store. She soon learns about the dark world of Korea's red-light districts, where a ...
BEST ACTRESS WINNER AT VENICE FILM FESTIVAL !! Shin, a nobleman, had been trying to conceive a male heir to pass his family name. Unable to provide a male heir, Shin's wife gives her ...
A story that follows the lives and interactions of two Buddhist monks living in South Korea.
Sun Nyog struggles after joining a Buddhist temple as a nun for lack of discipline. She saves an alcoholic from suicide but he later rapes her and she is forced out of the temple. Still, ...
The first chapter of the the General's Son trilogy follows Kim Du-Han's childhood, from the loss of his mother at age 8, to his rise as a gang leader who protects local vendors from expanding Yakuza forces in Japanese occupied Korea.
A drama centered on brother-and-sister musicians trained to perform the epic Korean poems known as pansori.
The story of Choe Si-hyeong, a leader of the Donghak Peasant Revolution during the late 19th-century Korea.
Part two of the General's Son trilogy, about a man's rise from gangster to politician during the Japanese occupation of Korea.
The final chapter of the General's Son trilogy tells the story of Kim Du-han, (Sang-min Park) a gangster turned politician during the Japanese occupation of Korea.
A platoon of South Korean soldiers find themselves cut off from their squad without communication. They are aided by an old man in a nearby village who did not evacuate his home.
Two Korean college graduates arouse the suspicions of Japanese authorities after modernizing a rural community with a school and a youth hall.
A bitter, conflicted former-shaman is begged by villagers to resume her religious practices in order to save their village from famine.
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.