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- A governor's son falls in love and marries a beautiful girl, the daughter of a courtesan. Their marriage is kept a secret from the governor who would immediately disown him if he found that his son married beneath him.
- 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.
- Despite its falling popularity, a father teaches his two children the Korean musical tradition of Pansori (one singer accompanied by one drummer).
- 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 various merchants in the village. One of the few men she does not sleep with, a lustful servant named Sam-dol, decides to reveal her activities to her husband for revenge.
- 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.
- 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, she grows fond of him. Another nun, Jin Song, is a grim ascetic who does well at the temple. She goes to the mountains to do a long retreat in a cave, but a brutal old monk who is there rapes her. Meanwhile, Sun Nyog returns to the nunnery to attend to the dying abbess and shows her spiritual superiority.
- An intricately put together story that brings to the screen Korea's most sensitive issues. Through the lives of various Seoulites, the film features an unfettered look into Korea's modern society by presenting them into four chapters - Moratorium, Amorality, Moral Hazard, and Y2K.
- R returns from studying in France and reunites with J, whom he used to live with in Paris. For some reason, however, J refuses to have sex with R. Angered by her refusal, R travels to his hometown of Daegu.
- Seon-jae, a teenage boy mourns the death of his father, and begins a quest to find his mother who abandoned him as a baby. He encounters many people on the way who quote Buddhist precepts: an eccentric monk, a girl who grows up into a young woman, a prison inmate, a foul-mouthed doctor and the young son of a hard drinking astronomer. Each of them tell the boy to seek someone to help him find the truth and his mother.
- Er Woo Dong translates to "entertainer," a rough approximation of the duties of 14th-century Korean courtesan Er Yoon Chang. After a lifetime "in service," Er Yoon Chang retires to a faraway village. Meanwhile, her powerful father, ashamed of his daughter's lifestyle, dispatches an assassin to do her in. Er Yoon Chang is protected by her faithful deaf-mute bodyguard, but only up to a point.
- Based on the great river story, (Taebaegsanmaek) The Taebaek Mountains chronicles the lasting generational conflict between proprietors and peasants in South Korea.
- Failing to enter the university of his choice, a young man is forced to enter a local college, but a series of disappointments causes him to give up his studies and begin a life of aimless travel
- Lee Jong-se is a third-rate comedian who believes himself to be a creative genius. He desires nothing more than to be a movie director. When he befriends barber, Mun Do-seok who has hopes to become an actor, it seems like a match made in heaven and the two set off to make a film
- A number of old family conflicts emerge when a writer returns to his hometown to attend his mother's funeral.
- Part two of the General's Son trilogy, about a man's rise from gangster to politician during the Japanese occupation of Korea.
- Forced to leave their home because of the construction of a new dam which will flood their village, the eldest son in the family prepares land and money to construct a new house in Seoul for his family. However, he shirks his duty shortly after and leaves overseeing the construction of the house to his younger brother while he goes to live separately.
- Governor Heo, worried about a plague that is sweeping through his district, places the blame on the local fortune teller whose charms and amulets failed to ward off the disease. He castrates her husband and takes the fortune teller as his personal slave, but the situation worsens. In desperation, he kills the couple. Heo's problems now increase as he begins to see strange visions and contracts leprosy.
- Dolai is the son of a policman and manages an all-women, tragically 80's, pop group called 'Thriller'. When the band members are threatened by a communist plot to break up the group, Dolai comes out fighting.
- Resentment rages between two sisters, one of whom was indirectly responsible for her husband's death and the other who secretly loved him.
- Three kids grow up in an orphanage; Haejin, Young-suk and Semin. Haejin is adopted by loving parents and becomes a reporter, Semin suffers from abandonment issues and joins the criminal underworld and Young-suk graduates top of the class at a fancy university and becomes a caretaker for disabled children. The kids call him 'Ggok-Ji-Ddan' and Haejin tracks down this character for a story, only to find it's her childhood friend. She also runs into Semin at a party he's crashed to rob. Young-suk's family are assaulted by hoodlums and Soo-yeon is kidnapped. Young-suk rescues her with the help of Semin, and takes their drug stash in revenge. Semin tells him to give the drugs to the cops but the criminals kidnap Haejin and set fire to Young-suk's house. Will he be able to save her? Will Semin continue his life of crime?
- A father pulls his son from junior high so the boy can help him in his deepsea fishing operations. Unhappy, the boy runs away to Seoul and becomes a boxer, eventually returning home a hero in all but his father's eyes.
- Documentary follows the players of South Korea's para ice hockey team that won the country's first silver medal at the World Championships in 2012.