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- About desires and lives of four characters in diverse circumstances. A poor novelist, a cheating wife, a mysophobic husband and a ticket girl.
- An investor planning on developing a tourist resort begins an investigation into the legends of the mysterious Io Island in the hope of exploiting its unspoiled beauty.
- Sung-ryeol is a detective in charge of violent crimes. He is an upright man, but is having an affair with his colleague's wife, and it is the reason he loses his own daughter in a car accident. Wracked with guilt but unable to explain to his wife, Ji-yeon, what happened on that day and why, he loses her in her grief. Ji-yeon comes home shaken and bloody late one evening, peaking Sung-ryeol's curiosity about his wife's behavior. The next day, Sung-ryeol finds trace evidence that points to his wife while investigating a murder scene. He presumes that his wife is connected to the case, and does all he can to keep her from being identified as a suspect. When an unidentified man shows up claiming to know Ji-yeon is involved and asking for money, the situation is made worse by Ji-yeon refusing to offer Sung-ryeol an explanation or tell him any kind of truth.
- In the winter of 1980s coal mining town, Ki-young runs away from the police due to his student protest and hides into the town. Then, Ki-young meets an unhappy waitress Young-sook who falls for him, and two people decide to leave together.
- A painter quits his job and looks to an old acquaintance for work and a place to stay.
- Magistrate Hwang's daughter Jin-yi, is jilted before her wedding because a shoe maker was smitten with her and commits suicide. Jin-yi becomes a courtesan, and becomes famous for her wits and beauty. She falls for Byuk Kye-su, but he's chosen to be an envoy to a far off kingdom. When he leaves she feels so betrayed she takes to a life of wandering. She meets Lee Saeng, a destitute scholar, and stays with him until she discovers he's going to sell her to a group of itinerate clowns. Instead, she joins them willingly.
- In ancient China, a salt merchant takes three wives. However their rivalry, plots and in-fighting destroy more than one family.
- Baek Ho-bin jumps into an arranged marriage with Jane for a green card and a chance to succeed in America. Because she felt like an isolated foreigner, his love is a beacon of hope. When Ho-bin finally gets through the immigration process, his ambition runs up against Jane's love. When the pretense is over, his aspirations nearly destroy her. The two decide to take a farewell trip to the desert, but will they find passion or death?
- In hope of growing his power, a warlord hires a group of 'Devil Fighters' to kill whoever gets in his way. When a group of martial arts experts does just that, it seems a bloodbath is unavoidable
- A suicidal woman recalls her memories of sexual abuse while on a train ride. On route, she meets a man who may be the key to finding a reason to live.
- Min-woo, a medical student from a wealthy family, runs into Da-hye as he rides his bicycle on campus. At first Da-hye dislikes Min-woo, but thanks to help from his charismatic friend Hyeon-tae, he grows closer to Da-hye and the two fall deeply in love. But happiness would not last long. Min-woo's business goes belly-up, and then he learns his birth mother is a military base-town prostitute. Do disturbed by this all he ends up in jail. Meanwhile, Da-hye grows more dependent on Hyeon-tae, and Hyeon-tae gets caught between his friendship for Min-woo and his love for Da-hye.
- This is a film about the coming of age of three men.
- A boy raised in a temple by monks must resist the test of temptation before he can become an abbot of his order.
- Lord Hong is left listless by his wife, so the doctor advises following the ancient advice of the Maiden Scriptures, which recommend a rejuvenating maiden. A poor young girl has been sold to the inn, and the doctor and inn keeper plan on using her, even though she is promised to Ba-woo. Lord Hong's affair with her succeeds in helping him, but what will the young couple do to his household? And what will the consequences be?
- Byung-tae suffers from Cerebral palsy and in trying to go sightseeing, ends up at the wrong destination. There he meets Min-wu and pregnant Chun-ja and decides to join them on their trip. Chun-ja is suicidal and makes a lot of trouble for Byung-tae. Chun-ja gives birth in a barn and the couple have and impromptu wedding. When they arrive in Chun-ja's hometown, Byung-tae heads to his original destination.
- A female prisoner is given a special pass for good behavior that allows her to travel outside the prison for a short time. She goes to visit her mother's tomb. On the train, she meets a young man who tries to convince her to run away. She refuses, but they promise to meet in two years when her sentence is finished. However the man fails to appear at the appointed time.
- A man is fired from his job for moonlighting. He needed the extra money to buy his wife a pacemaker, but his company will accept no excuses until it is too late
- With her father crippled with arthritis, an extremely elderly mother, and five siblings to care for, Hwang Suk takes a job as a fisherman in order to help her family survive.
- Flower on the Equator is a suspense film with a hint of the classic Hitchcock film Rear Window, with its theme about the isolation of alienated people living in the city.
- A painter on the verge of suicide finds comfort in Seon-hie. She gives birth to his son but his mother forces him to separate from her. He decides the way to financial independence from his mother is to win a national art contest.
- A wealthy, retired man worries about the futures of his five daughters. Meanwhile, the daughters are plotting to marry their father off to a kind widow.
- A director scouts for a new model for a television ad and finds Chu-ha. He falls in love with her, but she in not ready to date again after the death of her lover
- A melodramatic look at the lives of twelve residents of Mrs Nam-gung's Boarding House.
- A man reviews the heartbreaks that he experienced in his lifetime including torture by the Japanese colonial police, the death of his son in the Korean War, his second son's emigration to the US, and the discovery that he has stomach cancer (the leading cause of death in Korea). His life is meant to depict an Everyman quality portraying experiences shared by Koreans in the first 3/4 of the 1900's.
- A lawyer's dealings withing impoverished farmers brings him into conflict with the Japanese colonial government which seeks his arrest
- A young widow ignores her social position and produces a son by one of the farm hands. Both the farmhand and the baby are expelled from the house by her family who then re-educate her over the next twenty years to believe that this incident was just a product of a fever-dream. However, at the end of those twenty years, her adult son drops by for a visit.
- The son of a famous freedom fighter returns home from overseas to discover the streets of Seoul are being terrorized by gangsters from Japan. He and a beautiful kisaeng, the Korean version of a geisha, plot to drive the outlaws off.
- Yu-ri is unhappy in her marriage, and takes many trips for her job. She causes Min-wu to have a car accident and meets him out of guilt. He is ordered by his boss to blackmail her for money. Min-wu is conflicted, as they've fallen in love, but once he confesses; they plan to run away together to his hometown. Will they make their escape to someplace far away?
- With the introduction of Catholicism to Korea in 1784 came social upheaval. People who practiced the new religion were tortured into renouncing it or executed. However, these conditions do not deter Seung-hun and her brother from attempting to spread the religion.
- Il-bong was utterly defeated as a wrestling athlete. He decides against returning to his hometown and stays in Seoul. As he wanders the street, going from job to job, someone recommends him to become an actor. But the acting roles that are waiting Il-bong are in adult movies.
- A successful but heartless doctor ignores the struggles and hardships of his brother and sister-in-law.
- A beautiful smuggler is convinced by a police detective to turn evidence against her associates
- Hyeon-gu deserts Min-hie when he discovers that his first love, Hye-shil is widowed and raising a child alone. However, Hyeong-gu also learns that he has cancer and that the only person with enough money to help him with a life-saving operation is Min-hie
- Kyeong-il and his sister, Kyeong-a, run a store together, but Kyeong-il is hospitalized when competitors beat him up. In the hospital, he falls in love with a nurse. She is already engaged so the only way he can continue seeing her is to manufacture reasons to stay in the hospital.
- Detective Lee hauls in ex-con Ji-shik on the hunch that he had something to do with a jewelry robbery. However, he has no evidence and is forced to let Ji-shik go free. Ji-shik, however, is no sooner out of sight of the police station when he begins planning his next crime so he can pay for his wife's surgery.
- A young man and woman meet at the beach. The man falls in love with her despite her perpetually moody personality. She soon reveals that she is dying and has only a few months to live.
- Though smart, a down and out man sees himself as a failure in life. He steals some money and takes off to Seoul with a friend, whose half-brother pursues them. They find a new friend along the way but the vagabond's friend runs away before they reach Seoul. The other two feel betrayed and they're all miserable in their lives. The new friend they picked up along the way figures out how to reunite them. They work hard to create a new life, and plant flowers and grass around the city. Will they commit more crimes? Will they run away again?
- Myeong-ae loses both her parents during the Korean War and her sister dies soon after. She wanders to Seoul and takes a job in a bar. There she meets, Hak-su, a university student and the two live together. Myeong-ae gives birth to Hak-su's daughter, but soon after, Hak-su is killed in an explosion. Giving up her infant for adoption by an American family, Myeong-ae takes the name 'Anna' and becomes a prostitute for American soldiers
- The lives of a wealthy, childless couple are sharply contrasted against the lives of a couple who are poor because they are raising many children
- Tired of encountering death in her job as a nurse, Jeong-a quits and begins a journey around Korea. During her travels, she learns more about Buddhism and decides that whe want to follow the way of the goddess of mercy. To this end, she takes steps toward becoming a monk
- At a water polo match Hye Ji first encounters Woo Yeob, a friend's boyfriend. He becomes more interested in Hye Ji than Yeong Mi, his girlfriend. Woo Yeob frequents her school and finally charms Hye Ji, to marry him against her parents wishes. Yeong Mi has become a nightclub hostess, and tries seducing Woo Yeob back. The self-indulgent philanderer sells his wife to a nightclub. Will Hye Ji's college friend rescue her to recover from the fruit of her deeds?
- The parents of two lovers run different criminal organizations and refuse to let their children associate. The lovers decide they must teach their parents a lesson by joining the gangs.