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The stress and shame of learning that his son is living with a woman without being married sends a millionaire to the hospital with high blood pressure. The son's girlfriend begins to take care of him there and tries to win him over

Kyeong-su, a child living in an orphanage, learns that his mother is alive and living in Japan. He tries to find a way to cross the see and winds up stowing away on a cargo ship.

King Gae-ro, the 21st king of the Baekje Kingdom--one of the three ancient kingdoms that comprise modern Korea, attempts to seduce the wife of a carpenter. When she refuses, he tortures her to death. Based on actual events

A man's ambition, drive and will to live gradually leave him as do the employees at his unproductive oil field.

Seon-deok is forced by her stepmother to sleep with a wealthy patron of their humble tavern. Consequently, she is thrown out of the house for shaming the family. Having nowhere else to go, Seon-deok tracks down the patron she slept with and begs to live with him.

Two orphaned friends are adopted into two very different families. One becomes a prosecuting attorney, the other grows up to be a gangster. It is not long before they are at odds with each other.

A dramatization of the life of Na Woon-gyu, one of the founders of the Korean film industry, as he struggled against the forces occupying his nation in the early 1900's.

Based on the life of Lee Kwang-su who was exiled to China during the Japanese occupation of Korea. After liberation, he was kidnapped by northern soldiers to become a mouthpiece of propaganda before he finally escapes to the south

A powerful and corrupt businessman ignores his wife and children and lives with his mistress, but is arrested for his activities following the military coup of May 1962. After being released from prison, he finds his wife waiting for him in front of the jail. Ignoring her, he goes to the home of his mistress, only to find that she is no longer there. He returns to his home where his wife accepts him with open arms

A truck driver tries to raise his children with the best things in life, but marital problems begin affecting his work and his relationship with his children.

During the Korean War, a village chief commits himself to blindly following communism. A group of people from the same village, opposed to his views, take to the caves above the town and live in nature, slowly shedding the norms of polite society

A man accused of assaulting and murdering a prostitute is able to clear his name, however the facts of the trial become public knowledge and everyone now knows that he is impotent.

At the end of WWII, Hanako, a Japanese woman, becomes separated from her daughter while going from Manchuria to Japan. She adopts a boy that she finds wandering on the streets of Seoul. Twenty years later, she learns that her daughter is alive and was raised by the parents of her adopted son

When his wife runs away with her lover and leaves their sick daughter to die alone, her husband sets out to seek revenge.

A man and his family struggle with poverty. His wife, unable to bear such a life, deserts her husband and their three children. The man next loses his house as he cannot afford the rent. While living homeless in the streets, his youngest daughter dies. Vowing to end his children's suffering, the man kills his oldest daughter and intends to kill himself and his son. His son, however, refuses to cooperate.

Two childhood friends look for suitable marriage partners but make money a prime consideration and never consider that they may be destined for each other