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The pupils of rival martial arts schools attempt to destroy each other using super-martial arts and spells raising the dead.

The story begins in the first year of Danjong’s reign, in July of the Gye-yu year, as the Seungjeongwon Ilgi records how Hwangbo In and Kim Jong-seo are accused of treason and executed to send a warning to Suyang, while Anpyeong, despite being advised to hide, chooses to face the turmoil but is eventually sentenced to death along with his loyal servant Musang, paving the way for Suyang to rise as King Sejo.

A goofy student is taught a lost martial art style by five ghosts.

Mi-ryeong marries Ji-kwang and takes him to live at her mansion. He soon seems to fall ill and he requests that his friend, Yeo-ok be hired on to nurse him. However, Yeo-ok and Ji-kwang are really lovers and together they manage to fake Ji-kwang's death. They next torment Mi-ryeong with visions of his 'ghost'. Mi-ryeong dies of fright and Yeo-ok and Ji-kwang marry--but their happiness is short-lived as their nights are interupted by the vengeful spirit of Mi-ryeong.

Seven-year-old girl Shin is sold off as a servant. She takes with her the 50-cent coin her grandmother gave her. However, at the master's house, Shin is accused of stealing the money and beaten. Shin escapes to mountains where she falls into a faint. Jin-ho, a student soldier, runs away from the army into mountains. He saves Shin and they live in the mountain where he teaches her how to read and fall in puppy love with each other. After the winter, Shin and Jin-ho go down the mountain. But they are discovered by soldiers who end up killing Jin-ho. Shin takes the harmonica that belonged to Jin-ho and goes home. When her father beats her and plans to sell her off again, Shin leaves in search of her mother. Shin finds her mother who is a kisaeng. Understanding that she can't stay, Shin leaves to become a servant. Learning that her grandmother is near death, Shin returns home and vows to overcome their poverty.

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Little Juno sets out in search of his sick mother who has left home to work overseas.

Ex-prostitute, Bang Mi, now runs the Happiness Therapy Center and shares an apartment with three men who compete for her love in a friendly fashion. However, her former pimp makes an appearance and threatens to bring Mi's happiness crashing down around her.

A Korean taekwondo instructor goes to Hong Kong to make an action movie, but becomes involved in stopping an international gang of smugglers.

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A 1986 Korean film about ancient demons and a brave boy.

A short film made by Park Kwang-su during his time at the Seoul Film Collective.

While Professor Yun, one of the world's leading authority on genetics, is abroad, Oh In-cheol and his fiancee Yun Jin-suk take the professor's papers from his laboratory. In-cheol and Jin-suk are researching the principle of the chlorophyll and a pill that can make people invisible. In-cheol becomes invisible and catches bank con-men and child kidnappers, etc. He works hard to expose society's evil and he is pasted all over newspapers. However, the criminals follow him and discover his identity. They steal his invisible pills. The criminals become invisible and they go on to commit their crimes such as robbing banks. But they don't have any pills to reverse the effects. The criminals ultimately come to In-cheol looking for the reverse pills when they are caught by the police.

On a star called 'Battlestar,' a class of turtles have evolved to form a civilized society. Shark, villain of the universe, attacks Battlestar. The princess escapes with the secret design plans of the Comentor Robot. On earth, Dr. Yang discovers how to bring garbages of the universe to earth and take care of them. Dr. Yang brings the princess to earth. Hyuk walks into Dr. Yang's lab. Contaminated by gamma rays, Hyuk grows supernatural powers. Hyuk and the princess combine forces and fight Shark and his men.

The lives of a group of women living in a women's shelter in a red light district of Seoul.

A reporter becomes involved in an investigation to expose a husband/wife team of international smugglers

Kim Ik-do and his second wife, Hye-mi, are living happily on the deer farm when a new breeder is hired. Hye-mi recognizes him as the ex-boyfriend who betrayed her five years ago. She makes a move on him but he is suffering from amnesia. Through her devoted nursing, he makes a full recovery and regains his memory. He leaves Hye-mi but then returns, demanding her love. Ik-do is furious but ultimately bows to their love. However, the man's wife and young child come looking for him. Hye-mi falls into the embrace of her forgiving husband.

A pair of sword fighters face off against the criminal gangs of the Poisonous Rose and the Black Tiger.

Ju Yeong-nbok volunteers to work for the North Korean army as a Russian translator. As the political climate in the North deteriorates, his sister flees south. Yeong-bok is worried that her defection will prevent his being promoted in the ranks of the communist party. He breaks up with his girlfriend because she is catholic in order to prove his party loyalty, but Yeong-bok still finds himself blacklisted.

After being broken up with by my girlfriend, “I” am behind not only on rent for my boarding house, but also on tuition. I go to her home under the pretense of coincidence and try calling, but I can’t reach her. After much agonizing, I submit a leave-of-absence form. While talking with a friend I haven’t seen in a long time, “I” decide that suicide is something only humans can do—and the two resolve to die together. This is the earliest work among the surviving productions made by Hongik University’s 'Sound of Light' collective.

Mr. Koo is a miserable salary man in Seoul. His hobby is taking pictures on the weekends. While on a trip, he takes a picture of speculators. They take him on a fancy outing, mistaking Mr. Koo for a reporter. After that, he pretends he is a reporter but gets beaten up by a group of workers on strike because he carries a camera.

Boon-yi, a young woman from a poor family, is placed into a wealthy household through marriage to a mentally impaired man. Within the household, she endures a life of hardship and exploitation under the control of her father-in-law, while tensions with the rest of the family grow. After a series of events leads to the family’s downfall and her own expulsion, Boon-yi is forced to rebuild her life on her own. Years later, she finds a path toward reconciliation and returns to her hometown in a bittersweet reunion.

Su-jin faints one day for no apparent reason and slips into a coma. After three months of waiting for her to recover, her boyfriend, Kyeong-ho, accepts a position as a ship's officer and goes on an extended tour. Meanwhile, Jang-won, a medical student working under the doctor caring for Su-jin, finds himself falling in love with the ailing woman.

Two cops share a common goal--to take revenge on the man who killed their parents.

James contemplates the meaning of life on his birthday, as he tries to reconcile his Christian upbringing with the stark realities of life. The next day, a letter from his godfather provides much needed comfort

After one of the raids into the ancient kingdom of Koryo by Mongolian bandits, Yu-seong finds himself alive, but orphaned. He sets off to Mongolia to rescue is fiance who was kidnapped in the raid by the leader of the bandits

The movie starts as a "film inside a film", that shows the clash between a father and his two sons. While the older one, Hong-jun, tries to understand and get closer to his dad, because of a past mistake, the younger one, Man-ho, wanders aimlessly, incapable of accepting or comprehending his actions. As time passes, Hong-jun notices that the story he is filming mirrors his brother's reality.

About the miserable reality of farmers. Directors are arrested for illegal screening. One of the legendary films that was oppressed by the age of repression.

This is 8mm film footage documenting the Democratic National Funeral held for the late Lee Han-yeol on July 9, 1987. It was shot by Kim Si-cheon, a member of Dolbit, the Korea University Film Study Group, as part of the club’s activities. The material was never screened—even within the club—after it was filmed. It includes, among other scenes, a speech in front of Seoul City Hall by Lee In-young, who at the time served as chair of the Seoul Area College Student Representatives Council and president of the Korea University Student Union. A primary historical record of the funeral, captured from the perspective of a student participant.

Min-woo (played by Jeon Yeong-rok), who came to Hong Kong for business, has his bag stolen at the airport. And after the suspicious death of his friend Ho-jin, Min-woo is treated as a mentally ill person and is confined to a hotel. With the help of the branch manager's secretary, Miss Ho, he is confined to the hotel. With the help of the branch manager's secretary, Miss Ho, he challenges the suspicions about Ho-jin's death with the help of a beautiful Chinese woman named Hyang-ri. After Miss Ho is found dead, Min-woo confirms that Hyang-ri's dead lover, James, is the same person as Ho-jin. Min-woo, who was caught by the villain Chen while trying to save Hyang-ri's female soldier and drowned in the sea, is rescued and Ho-jin's body is recovered from the sea. It is finally revealed that CEO Jin was jealous of Ho-jin and Hyang-ri and had Chen kill Ho-jin. He chases CEO Jin as he runs away and destroys him. When Min-woo returns, love with Hyang-ri awaits him.

Jang Yong-Ho loses his parents owing to his grandfather's Cheongja martial art by the Japanese. To retaliate upon the enemy, he practices martial art. Kim Seok-Do advises Jang to escape, but Jang's grandfather is kidnaped and tortured by a Japanese (Nishi Hiro) while keeping his place. Jang sneaks into Nishi Hiro's mountain villa and rescues his grandfather. Nishi Hiro calls again the Japanese snipers, that is, Kenji and Harata. Kenji let Harata fight against Jang, while Kenji himself kills both Kim Seok-Do and Jang's grandfather, and kidnaps Da-Bok. Jang fails to pass Nishi Hiro's yard. On the way to home, Jang meets his younger brother and is informed that his grandfather has been killed. To retaliate upon the enemy, he let his younger brother learn Cheongja martial art. The brothers attack Nishi Hiro's mountain villa and rescues Da-Bok.

Je-je's father was working at the Gu-ro Industrial Complex when he caused an accident and was subsequently fired. As his family falls into hardship, Je-je doesn't receive much love or interest from his parents. One day, the family moves to a house in the forest protection zone. When he fools around, Je-je is scolded and he would whine to the tree in the backyard. He is still mischievous when he enters the elementary school. One day, Je-je is picking flowers in the neighbor's yard when he is caught. He hurts himself as he is running away. As injured Je-je goes to school, the Japanese dean, Mudoa helps him and they become friends. He learns about love from Mudoa but she dies in a car crash. From the shock, Je-je lingers between life and death. He finally recovers and the family smiles again. Je-je keeps the love in his heart despite the bitterness and becomes strong.

The author writes that at the moment the sun retrieved its last ray of light, the girl "sensed sensuality in the dark and watched death". The Woman at the Toy Store (OH Jeonghee) was transformed into a film, and the sexuality of the girl and woman gained the rhythm of requiem. The thrill of the moment when the positive changes to negative is, therefore, the sensuality of the cinema. Blue Requiem, the queer experimental work dedicated to the girl and the woman, arrived in the Winter Republic in 1986.

A female laborer in the Winter Republic crosses a river. She sings Kongmudohaga. An experimental montage connects the front and back of history.

Keum-ji was born with a hideous face due to some medicine her mother took while she was pregnant with her. Keum-ji grew up under much abuse while she watched her twin sister, Mi-kyung, receives all their parents' love. Her resentment is strong. Keum-ji develops a high level of concentration until it grows into a supernatural power which she uses to try to find her life. One day, Keum-ji has some plastic surgery done. She looks like Mi-kyung but Mi-kyung ends up looking hideous like Keum-ji once did. The two twin sisters are psychologically and physically linked, sharing a single fate. With their mother, Hye-won, begging her husband to return Mi-kyung to her former self, the husband is very conflicted but chooses Mi-kyung in the end.

Three young people, tired of the restrictions placed upon them by adult society, run away to a deserted island to live as they see fit. Gangsters are also using the island, however, and the utopia the three had created is soon under attack.