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This sentimental and visuel poem crosses the lives of Jiyoung Jang, a 40-years-old trans artist, Loi Tan, an adopted Filipino boy, and Rain, a young woman from the Philippines with a Korean dream. Their lives accidentally intertwine. The way the characters undergo psychological pollution in both spaces, and how these people pollute their own environment illustrates the irony that the modern people lives in.
A condemned prisoner slowly falls in love with the married female artist who decorates his prison cell. Jin is a convicted killer awaiting execution on Death Row; Yeon is a lonely artist locked in a loveless marriage.
After repeated failures to become a popular actor, Eun-gu decides to leave for the ocean, to commit suicide in a fashionable way he's always fantasized about. But when he runs into an old friend's wayward sister, his plan begins to fall apart.
Jin-woo is new to romance, so he dreams of the best partner. Then Gi-seop, tall and good-looking but shallow, gets Jin-woo's attention. Jin-woo thinks Gi-seop is never enough for him, but at the same time, he can’t stop thinking about him. As Gi-seop is used to being the one asked out and always saying yes he wonders why Jin-woo does not make a move. But then it hits him: Jin-woo's standards are sky-high. So, he decides to move in to Jin-woo's house. Living together, they keep bumping into each other and one accidental kiss stirs them up.
Trans woman Mirae, who just can’t live with her family, tries to get a house by assault settlement.
Cha Heon-tae, a Korean-American, was adopted with his sister to American parents. He appears on a Korean television program in search of his mother. Since Heon-tae is a trained alpine skier, he is approached by Coach Bang who wants to recruit members for a new national ski jumping team for the approaching 1998 Winter Olympics.
Elton Chong stars as a martial arts whiz-kid named Chuck, who, after being taught by master Leon Chan, becomes an expert in the Shaolin "13 styles" and all forms of swordplay. On a secret mission for General Ching, Chan escorts a treasure to a section of the Yangtze River where a flood has ravaged the area. In his way is Eagle, a henchman of General Ching, who inflicts a fatal wound on Chan. Now it is up to Chuck to save the day and avenge his master. Mad trad kung fu all the way!
Iris, a woman abroad in Seoul, teaches French and English in an idiosyncratic fashion that allows her to pursue her own philosophical and personal interests. Through four encounters over a single day, Iris probes students and strangers for information about poetry, their own histories, and their relationship to their egos.
Hyang-gi hates her mother who only likes men and doesn't take care of herself. She brings a man to her house to sleep over so her mom will find her crooked. To correct Hyang-gi, she asked Do-hwan, Hyang-gi’s cousin, to live with her at home for a while. Hyang-gi and Do-hwan, who were reunited as adults, grew very attracted to each other. Chae-kyeong, Do-hwan's girlfriend, finds out about it. After revealing the truth in front of everyone, Hyang-gi and Do-hwan are on the verge of breaking up.
A cinematic special for the Infinite Challenge skit, Muhan Company.
Amy, adopted by an American family as a child, visits a jjigae restaurant in Jungnang-gu, Seoul. She introduces herself as a chef from the U.S. to Eunseon, the restaurant owner searching for staff after her mother passed away. Amy asks Eunseon to teach her how to make jjigae. Amy can not hide her complex feelings toward Eunseon's mother. Eunseon gradually grows suspicious about Amy.
Zoo-young and her contrabass are wandering in space after leaving their planet due to a food shortage. Meanwhile, Earth is overflowing with plastic, their staple food, and Pu-reum lives there. Pu-reum's song guides Zoo-young and the contrabass back to Earth, and after a long journey toward each other, they finally meet.
Sunhi, a film major graduate, visits her school to ask her Professor Choi for a recommendation letter to study in U.S. Knowing the professor favors her, she expects a good recommendation from him. Out from her shell after a long time, Sunhi also ends up meeting two men from her past: Munsu, her ex-boy friend, and Jaehak, a director who graduated from the same film school. Through the encounters between Sunhi and the three men, they give each other an 'advice on life' with good intentions. The three men who all have strong interests in her are led to guess and define her, unable to tell how she really feels inside. Strangely, the mentioned advices and traits of her are similar and seem to pass from one person to the next. The words of 'advice on life' seem doubtable and slip away as the three men's thoughts on Sunhi become more and more irrelevant.
A man with no ambitions or scruples, upon his release from prison, meets a former classmate who has fallen on hard times and has lost his will to try to better himself and his life.
Three grown sons have struggled to achieve some sort of normal routine after their father was sent off to prison for sexual assault on an underaged girl. Their lives are thrown into radical disarray when dad finishes his time and returns to the family home. The fact that the victim’s father is awaiting the return outside their door with a knife is certainly not any help to their situation... but it’s not like things are going so well otherwise, with the three sons, a virtual compendium of sexual dysfunctions in their own right.
After marrying an older husband, the new family who is full of dissatisfaction with the marital relationship. The neighbor's bachelor begins to get excited about looking at him. One day he calls a man looking at himself into his house. It develops into a hot relationship and even thinks of divorcing her husband.
Yoon-young fell for Song-hyeon when she was married to his friend. When she gets divorced, he takes her on a trip to Gunsan, where they stay at a guest house run by a middle-aged man and his autistic daughter.
First story. Ye-jin is a high school junior from a wealthy family who also does very well in school. But her secret aspiration is to be a back dancer. Although her boyfriend Sang-rok is the class president and a good student, he is very passive. Ye-jin gives up her dreams of back dancing and decides to leave for Canada. Before she does, she gives Sang-rok a farewell kiss. Jun-tae is a problem student with a heart of gold. He quits school for good after he gets into a fight with the Dae-gon the top student at school. Second story. Jun-tae becomes a street kid hustling customers for a local bar. He develops a crush on a fellow street kid named Gigi. Jong-su, born poor and illegitimate, carries a giant chip on his shoulder. He is part of a motorcycle gang and is going out with Titi who works at the local gas station. The two couples take off to the East Sea for a getaway but are tracked down by men sent by Jong-su's father.
Young-taek is a high school student. One day, a boy visits his house. It turns out that this boy is his father's lover. He can't believe that his father is gay but eventually accepts the fact. After he graduates from high school and attends university, he meets a senior classmate who becomes being in love with him. The senior classmate harasses him in the name of love. After he goes to serve in the army, he is sexually harassed by his sergeant who has a girlfriend. Young-taek has been homophobic, but after meeting different people, he reconsiders life and love.
On a small island, Jin, a teenage girl going through puberty, begins her first love affair with her best friend Dujae.
A psychodrama about a man who chases the hidden truth behind his wife's death while confronting the labyrinth of his own inner self.
A South Korean art house film director is first invited to serve on the panel of a film festival, then to guest lecture at a film school.
Gangjae's normal family life is turned upsdie down when he falls for a young yoga teacher. Gangjae has got it all, a loving wife, adorable children, and a high-paying position. But he yearns for something more. When the teacher breaks off the affair, marrying another man, Gangjae longs for her, ten years on.
Teenage girls suffer from conflicts from their parents' affairs. A baby from the affair is born, and the two families have to accept reality.
Soo-Ha (Gang Ye-Won) suddenly quits her job at a company and leaves with a cactus that resembles her. She goes to a rest stop area which her father left for her. While working at the rest stop area she meets strangers and grows as a person ...
An aimless young man and his sign-painter friend draw a crowd when they climb to the top of a high-rise billboard.
The film depicts the story of four people working in a sewing factory in Guro Industrial Complex in Seoul and the problems they face.
Baekseol is a 29 year old college student in Seoul. She recently failed to become a regular employee and is considering going to graduate school. But out of the blue, her mother –Haesook – visits from Daegu and announces that she wants to travel the world alone in order to fully live her life.
A well-meaning but politically naive barber gets pulled into the inner circle of the South Korean dictator Park Chung-Hee, with rather baleful consequences for his hapless family. This sharp political satire covers roughly twenty years in South Korean political history, from the viewpoint of the barber's son.
Won-Sool is an adult man with cerebral palsy. His daughter Jaya is his pride and joy. Jaya though is bullied at school and even worse things happen to her. Won-Sool later decides to get revenge on his daughter's tormentors.
With 200 days left before college entrance exams, In-hye, who cares for the school's animal pen, spends her time lecturing a duck instead of studying. Seo-hee, punished for carrying a knife, joins her, and they discover an abandoned meadow where they lose the duck, Hee-seon. Meanwhile, teacher Kim Ah-tae forms a college interview prep group for four neglected students. On interview day, In-hye and Seo-hee ditch school to find Hee-seon, camping in the meadow and gradually learning to survive in the wild.
Eating, Talking, Faucking consists of 18 episodes. Some of which include a story of a 70's old man and 14-year-old kids talking candidly, a story of a soldier who is about to die and a serial killer, a story of men and women who have a blind date in the nude and a story of the creator who made human beings and mediates desires. All of which, contains honest sex talk on the screen.
A healing drama about Hee-yeon who only follows the splendid appearance shown others, meeting her old friend Seong-seon in Tongyeong, where there is nothing special, and moving forward to find her forgotten dream.
The great adventures of Kim Dae-gun, a young man dreaming of a New Joseon. He is full of curiosity and takes action rather than words. He willingly accepts the fate of becoming Joseon’s first priest and sets out to study in Macau with his seminary classmates. And finally opens the way of the modern Joseon Dynasty by traversing the sea and land!
Yoon Ji-hee played with the ouija board in childhood. As she grew, she sank deeper into the occult using ritual to change her appearance, manipulate events, enchant people - her ultimate aim: to rule Korea. Meanwhile, Kim Seok-il, a sturdy presidential candidate, is being investigated by a journalist who discovers things best kept hidden.
An ordinary office worker, Jeong-min, successfully marries Yuri, whom he had liked in college, and is living an ordinary but happy married life. One day, his older brother Jeong-tae, whom he has not contacted for 10 years, appears, and he decides to live with him for a while at his mother's earnest request. However, he does not know that his wife Yuri's first love was his own older brother Jeong-tae. His older brother Jeong-tae is surprised to learn that his younger brother's wife is Yuri. Yuri is also surprised to meet Jeong-tae, but on the other hand, his heart flutters...
Oki, a film student, gets involved in two relationships as she navigates the advances of a fellow student and grapples with her feelings for her much older professor.
Bong Soo loses his memories from an accident, which disables him to recognize his family. Due to this condition, and his ever-increasing odd behaviors, his relationships get mixed up. He treats his wife as his daughter and mistakes her daughter for a friend. Ironically, his friends and family start to accept the situation as they derive some comfort and warmth from it.
A traveling architect meets an old friend from his student years; the pair realize their connection has always been a romantic one.
Journalist Sang-jin uncovers the existence of the so-called 'Troll Factory' while investigating an online public sentiment manipulation story, and is confronted with an unbelievable truth.
Jungmin is a successful adult comics author. But he harbors a secret. He is a virgin, and his comics are based on fantasies. To write and draw authentic comics, he asks his assistant to sleep with him.
In-ha and Hee-jae were together in college and meet again after years. Their love is being tested when Hee-jae finds out she is ill.
On October 26, 1979, President Park Chung-hee, who had ruled South Korea since 1961, was assassinated by his director of intelligence. The film depicts the events of that night.
Je-Chil is a lawyer that does well financially, but he has never dated a woman in his life. He can't even make eye contact with women. His severe shyness effects his job. In court, he can't make eye contact with women and becomes brain frozen. Because of this, he loses case after case. Je-Chil has held a secret crush on Soo-Hyun for over 10 years. Je-Chil's life then changes. On a rainy evening, Je-Chil finds a beautiful woman unconscious on the ground. He brings her home.
Two women's anticipated suicide journey turned into a physical terror... Mi-ran is a call girl who was raised in an orphanage without having been loved once in her life and sold herself several times to men. The more Se-hee struggled with the weight of life, the heavier it got. On her first day of work as a call girl, a terrible accident happens. These two women think they are abandoned by life and start off on a suicide journey.
An elderly man's son, dissatisfied at living with his father's senility, forces his wife to abandon his father in the park. Another couple take pity on him and invite him to their home, but when they realize how much care he requires, they return him to the park.
During the Joseon Dynasty, lowborn Chae-sun challenges the rule that states only men allowed to sing while navigating devotion to her teacher and the demands of the king's father.
A highschool student suffers from depression, resentment, and lonliness when he is forced to repeat his final year but his friend's are accepted into college.
Jinwoo, a Korean American, returns to Seoul amid an escalating global crisis. Despite being exempt from service, he’s determined to enlist in the military and join the Korean soldiers being sent overseas. Awaiting his deployment day, he spends his time wandering the city’s winding streets, reconnecting with old friends and trying to win the approval of his stern, reserved father. A quiet tension builds as the big day approaches, and Jinwoo begins to question his decision.
A self-conceited story about Jae-yoon, a married film professor in his 40's who tries hard to seduce an assistant that he finds attractive. He thought his wife and assistant were both his, but things were not as they seemed.
Nice Shorts consists of four short films from up and coming directors. A simple walk means so much more in the touching short "Shall We Take a Walk?" directed by Kim Ye Yeong and Kim Yeong Geun. Directed by Hong Sung Hoon, "Girl" tells of a father's strange day when his son's girlfriend shows up, and Lee Jeong Wook's "Mates" goes undercover into memories and crime solving. Winner of Best Korean Short at the 2009 Jeonju Film Festival and the Excellence Award at the Seoul Independent Film Festival, Jo Sung Hee's "Don't Step Out of the House" is about two young children who live in a rundown apartment by themselves, and what happens when adults invade their space.
A young man from Busan moves to Seoul to become an actor, only to find himself struggling to make ends meet. Lines get tangled, his Seoul accent gets worse, and even love doesn't go his way.
Three best friends meet and boldly talk about sex together. Their characters are as different as their lifestyles. One works at a hotel, one at a design firm and the other is a graduate student. The conversations alter their lives as they begin to have different sexual relationships than before.
Nam-do and Nam-shik are two brothers who were raised by their poor grandmother on a mountainside in a remote region of Kangwon Province. Hoping to receive a salary to support his family, Nam-do takes the airforce entrance exam but he fails. He is forced to move to Seoul to earn a living. Nam-shik remains to care for their ailing grandmother and decides to make a go at improving their small farm
Song-young and Song-mi are sisters who came all the way from Seoul to celebrate their mother’s birthday. While spending the happiest moment in the world, Yoo Jae-ma, a notorious serial killer on the loose drops in. However the girls and their mother find out the truth behind his murders.