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- Kang-ae, a successful novelist and playwrite, dreams of success for her daughter, Da-mi. But Da-mi resents her mother and the expectations placed on her. She decides to leave her mother and go with her father in Japan.
- Considered by Shin to be his best North Korean film.
- A tiger is angry and want to challenge the Hedgehog who once insulted him by spared his life.
- A propaganda documentary about Kim Il Sung, directed by the kidnapped Sang-ok Shin.
- A singer seeks to escape her obsession for a man who has no feelings for her by beginning a career outside the country. She becomes a hit in Japan but, unable to forget the object of her desire, she throws away her success and returns home, hoping to finally convince the man to love her
- Patriot Yun Bong-chang attempts to assassinate the Japanese emperor as he is leaving the palace during the occupation of Korea in the 1930's. He fails but his associate succeeds in detonating a bomb in a room where Japanese high officials were celebrating their monarchs birthday in Shanghai. Both men are eventually captured and sent to the scaffolds.
- In the years just after the Korean War, Hoon is a farmer who is happily married to Young-Soon. Since they are childless after six years of marriage, his mother forces him to marry a second wife, Kyung-Ja, a widow with a young brother to support. Kyung-Ja soon bears a son, Min. However this unusual arrangement causes all kinds of trials and tribulations for the two wives and their extended family over the next twenty years.
- Two traditional stories. In the first, a girl marries the bravest man in the village so she can send him into a monster's lair to collect an mystic herb which can save her father's life. In the second story, even death cannot prevent a devoted wife from helping in her husband's success.
- A young widower is continuously forced to try to convince his stingy father to help invest in a farm in the country for the future of his daughter.
- While retreating from the advancing North Korean armies, a group of marines attempt to hold the town of Tongyeong to provide a place to launch a counter-attack.
- A pickpocket leaves his streetgang and begins an honest life working in a gas station with the love and support of a blind girl.
- After her husband dies, the young widow Hye-shil takes care of her brother-in-law and helps him through medical school. They move in together and fall in love, but marrying is impossible under Korean law.
- A man with five daughters is at odds with a woman who has five male boarders in her home.
- Right after Korea's liberation, O Yun accidentally finds out through Choe Sang-bae about a large amount of gold nuggets Japanese soldiers left behind, O kills many of his colleagues to take all the gold to himself. In the end, a neck less beauty among the dead shows up and takes her revenge on him.
- Hyeon-ae spends six years raising her daughter alone while she waits for her husband to return from overseas. On the day he is to return, Hyeon-ae is raped at the airport. Filled with self-loathing, Hyeon-ae drives her car off a cliff and is presumed dead until she makes a sudden reappearance years later.
- A North Korean agent falls in love with the South Korean Minister of Information. The agent begins to submit false reports to her superiors, paving the way for the UN forces landing safely in Incheon to recapture Seoul.
- Jewel thief Cheol-woo evades the police by escaping to a remote island which he discovers to be populated entirely by widows.
- Charged with political activism, a man and his girlfriend are imprisoned. The man convinces his girlfriend to sleep with the warden in order to win favor so they can escape. She does as he wishes but kills herself afterwards. Her brother sets out to seek revenge on her boyfriend and the warden
- Eun-yeong waits four years for her husband to finish his study in the USA. When he returns, she finds that he has married again. Apparently he had misunderstood a letter Eun-yeong had sent him and thought that she had left him. Her love turns to hatred and she sets out to destroy his business and happiness
- A woman gets a job at her boyfriend's company. Things go well until his uncle, who also works there, takes an interest in her. Her boyfriend misunderstands, thinking that she is after his uncle's money. He starts distancing himself from her. When she learns that she is pregnant, he refuses to believe that it is his child and breaks up with her. In her depression and frustration, she decides to end her life.
- Widow Lee falls in love with a married man and her daughters are forced to confront them before their ruinous scandal destroys all their lives.
- Because he has gotten himself involved in too many things at the same time, a man asks his unemployed friend to take a job that he has been offered in his stead. That simple act of kindness changes the friend's life forever
- Agent Kang Cheol goes undercover as a thief to infiltrate a gang and gain information about its leader
- A group of jewel thieves, having served their prison sentence, fight over possession of their stolen goods which the police never recovered. One attempts to give up his share and leave the group, but the others, fearing that he will go to the police, kill him and continue to fight among themselves
- A man, one corner of a love triangle, plots against his rival and eventually succeeds in having him sent to prison.
- A young girl is forced to become a kisaeng to support her family. Her place of employment sells her off to an old man as his concubine. She falls into depression over her circumstances and misses the boy she left behind
- The life of Lee Seung-man, a freedom fighter who struggled to liberate Korea from Japanese rule
- Eun-ji deserts her husband, Se-il, a failed director. He becomes a laborer and takes charge of their son. Eun-ji takes up with a judge who soon finds himself listening to a case brought against Se-il.
- Three sisters live together with their wealthy, widowed mother. They compete for her affection in the hopes of inheriting her property. One sister is married to a shiftless lump and the other to a conman. The youngest sister meets a kind man who becomes determined to help this disfunctional family.
- A mother accidently kills her son while trying to prevent him from dating a woman whom, unknown to him, is his sister.
- Ahn Min, the director of a hospital, is grieved to learn that his wife is dying of an incurable illness. Nurse Seon-ok at first feels pity for him, but this gradually turns to love. Ahn Min refuses to forget his wife in the face of her advances, especially since Mrs Ahn is still alive.
- A Korean mother and daughter living in Japan are captured by Japanese gangsters. They are rescued, but their savior turns out to be a North Korean agent who wants their properties and plans to ship the pair to North Korea.
- After finishing his military training, a young private is sent to the DMZ where he makes close friends with two other enlisted men from different walks of life in this propaganda film used to raise support for the government's program of mandatory military service
- Yeong-hun gave up medical school to follow his dream of becoming a movie director but he finds himself as a lowly assistant director with no real responsibilites. He meets student Seong-hie and falls in love, but he lies to her, saying that he is the film's director, hoping that she will be impressed and return his feelings of love
- Three generations of couples have various experiences in and around an obstrenics/gynecology clinic
- Sister Erissa witnesses a gang of thieves hiding drugs in a cemetery. The spot her and kidnap the nun. Taking her tp their hideout, the thieves fall into fighting each other over their share of the drugs and possession of the young nun.
- A retired general finds it difficult to hold down a job in civilian life.
- A mutiny erupts on a freight vessel resulting in the ship owner being killed and the captain put out to sea. 15 years later, the captain re-enters the sailors' lives, new seeking revenge
- Upon returning to Korea after completing his music studies abroad, a man finds that his ex-lover's husband has been kidnapped by North Korean soldiers. Rather than dwell on the issue, the two rekindle their passion for each other.
- Framed for murder and sentenced to 20 years, Jin-gyu meets the monk Yu-wol who reveals a hidden store of riches. Jin-gyu takes the treasure, becomes a millionaire and seeks revenge on his enemies.