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A black dragon possesses a magic stone that gives him eternal power. One day he kidnaps the princess of a nearby kingdom and her lover, a fisherman, goes on a dangerous journey to save her and destroy the magic stone.

Despite being deaf Sang-kuk never forgets to smile while he makes furniture. Kyung-hee can't hear either but with her natural beauty and outgoing personality, she enjoys her job at a sign language interpretation center. Between them they have hearing daughter Bora who is a director and a son named Kwang-hee. When, after moving eight times since marriage, Sang-kuk wants to move one more time, Kyung-hee opposes him. In filming the silent world of her parents, the director discovers new stories coming from herself, who grew up moving back and forth between two worlds-one of silence and the other of sound.

This work was created for the Leeum Museum of Art's 2024 Art Spectrum special exhibition, "Dream Screen". Viewing fabricated horror as a sign of the times, it is one of 26 pieces by emerging Korean and Asian creators completed using the haunted house motif. The soul of a Korean-Chinese singer who passed away long ago awakens in the sea and wanders in search of traces of himself.

Jin-seok and Yeo-eun are a loving couple. And Yeo-eun's older sister, Su-a, who came to the couple's house. When Jin-seok goes to the living room, not awake from the alcohol he drank the day before, he sees his naked wife after taking a shower, and she is overrun with lust. Su-a decides to appease her lust by intimidating him as she forgets his exhilarating taste.

One day, a girl customer starts telling sexual jokes to a blind acupuncturist. Her visits create a sensation to his monotonous life and awaken his hidden desire. The blind acupuncturist slowly falls into a fantasy of the Brazilian Carnival and faces its fever in his reality...

A young preist that hears the confession of a man who years before, drunk behind the wheel of his car, ran over a man and killed him on the walkway. He didn't give himself up to the ploice, but ran away from the accident site. For years, his conscience tortured him, reminding, above all, that man's child crying desperately. What he didn't know is that this child grew up and became a priest, the priest who was hearing his confession. The ending is unpredictable.

A fruit store owner, Aya, feels an attack of indigestion. *This film does not provide subtitles for the Vietnamese dialogue according to the director’s intention.

When Gina Kim turned twenty-two, she decided to leave her home in Korea and not return. Taking advantage of an opportunity to study abroad, she was anxious to escape her mother’s authority and avoid a similar fate as an overweight, underappreciated housewife. Traumatized by her decision, the filmmaker began to develop symptoms of anorexia and proceeded to document her mental decline and eventual recovery. Combining video performance art with an intimate home-movie diary, this self-documented coming-of-age story demonstrates how video technologies can be used to capture the most intimate, confessional voice of a filmmaker.

Su-haeng finds that his much-valued popularity may not save him when his family cannot afford the open heart surgery he requires.

A film about the troubles of Korean youths teetering on the edge of poverty, their struggle is to survive the mounting debts and the hopelessness of their situation. Among them is Kim Byung-Seok, an aspiring filmmaker who's stuck in dead-end jobs and his camera is only used for filming weddings. His girlfriend, Jae-Kyung, has trouble finding jobs and is fired for being "too depressing". Although they've coped in the past, recent conflicts and frauds have pushed them to desperation, making the future look bleak.

Jinsa Maeng's daughter is contracted to marry a nobleman's son, however, Jinsa Maeng is upset when he hears about a rumor that the fiance of his daughter is lame. Finally, he decides to take on the idea of arranging his maid to take his daughter's place in the wedding.

Min-woo, a young man who works at a local office in a rural village, lives with his father and grandmother and often hangs out with his close friend Seong-hoon. The weather is not exactly what the farmers want, and Min-woo continues to lead a quiet life.

Woo-hee lives her life like a solitary island until her hometown friend Young-shin, who has been in contact for a while, visits her house. Their sudden reunion stays longer than expected, but ends up unexpectedly short.

A top actress lives next door to a teenage tennis player named So-eun who is, in fact, her daughter. Mother and daughter don't quite get along.

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.

After 15 years of knowing Chosun people in Japan I met on Mt. Geumgang in 2002, I face the history of colonization and division that I had not known before. They’ve been to North Korea many times, but never to South Korea. They tell us why they want to live as Chosun people despite the discrimination in Japanese society.

A man laboring at a swanky restaurant works himself to the bone to ensure his son can afford to study law and become a prosecutor. He feels it gives his own life value, even if it comes at the cost of hurting his son.

What makes a mother give away her baby? This is the big question in Sun Hee Engelstoft’s poignant heartbreaker of a film about three Korean women who have become pregnant outside of marriage and are now hiding from the outside world until they give birth. They live in a shelter for unwed mothers on a South Korean island, where beautiful landscapes are in sharp contrast to the fierce dilemma that women go through: should they keep their children or give them up for adoption? Engelstoft has been given unique access to this particular shelter run by the strong-willed Mrs. Im, who fights for the girls’ independence but is up against a social structure and family tradition that leaves women in an impossible situation. Engelstoft’s sensitive portrait brings us close to a forbidden world and through her own experience as a Korean adoptee, she gives a deeply personal and extraordinary insight into a culture in which women can’t choose their own fate.

The rivalry between two families prevents budding love from being realized in the younger generation.

A woman is in domestic service after going up to Seoul. She loves a university student of a rich family and gives birth to a baby. But his parents object to their marriage, so she becomes a butt for laugh. At length, the parents get impressed by her good nature and allow them to marry.

Hong Sangsoo's short film made for the 59th edition of the New York Film Festival.

In 2010, the people of Seoul, South Korea fight a virus that threatens to infect the planet.

Set during the Japanese occupation of Korea, Bun-yi is sold into marriage as the wife of Young-gu, the intellectually disabled son of a wealthy family involved in secretly funding the independence movement. As she endures hardship and family conflict, betrayal from within the household leads to her expulsion. After Korea’s liberation, both Bun-yi and Young-gu struggle to rebuild their lives separately. Years later, through perseverance and changing fortunes, the fractured family is reunited, leading to reconciliation and renewal. Film adaptation of the 1972 KBS TV series A Journey

"Sad and Glad Goodbye" (12m) by Yoo Hyun II Jin Ah is breaking up with her boyfriend, Kyeong Nam, who she's been with for four years. Unable to understand the reason for the breakup, Jin Ah is reminded by her junior, Joo Hyeon. "Unprofessional" (11m) by Kim Se Hee II Hye Aeung, the vocalist of the six-year indie band Wanderlust, is about to snap on stage ahead of their last song. "DESEX" (25m) by Kim Hong Li Soo, along with her boyfriend, came to neuter their cat. At this point, they are going to end their boring relationship. Coincidentally, the veterinarian is her boyfriend's ex. In the midst of discomfort, the cat under surgery faced its end, failing to wake up from anesthesia. "She Is" (17m) by Won Eun Sun Actress Hwang Mi Yeong hasn't had a blind date in a long time, and the man he met seems uninterested. Will her blind dating journey end successfully?

ARCADIA(Ipsuk Bugeun) is originally conceived from a representative figure in Korean literature writer Hwang Sok-yong’s debut novel Ipsuk Bugeun(1962). It was filmed in the winter of 2015 at Towangseong Waterfall, a sacred place in the history of Korean mountaineering located in Mt. Sorak. Ipsuk Bugeun represents the stark beauty of nature, created by the transiently shaped ice walls against the elaborately forged rocks formed through time, and human’s genuine and sublime pursuit to witness the artistry and splendor of nature. The lines excerpted from the novel which depicts a boy’s existential grow through encountering moments of justice, friendship, death and rests in a composed matter are translated synesthetically into Jang’s video. Collaboration with art director Lee Kyungsoo(workroom) the original typeface from the 1962’s Ipsuk Bugeun was adapted to the film and music direction by Jung Jaeil enhances the narrative experience of the viewer appealing to auditory sense.

In the coal mine of the North Manchuria in the Japanese colonial period, Dhiho (Park, Sik) and Jinsu (Kim Hee-la), who made the ceremony, are accused of stealing gold from the Dalgyo (Hurjanggang) crowd. In the end, he returned to Seoul to pay for the injustice of the innocent and deadly victim, hoping for a chance to revenge around Dalgy, the company's president, as a stolen gold bullion. On the other hand, Hyeon-joo's wife, Yong-sook (Kim Ji-mi), who lives alone as a blind person, can not tell her husband's death and reassures her that she is innocent. In the sadness of Yong - suk, he writes a corneal transplant consent to donate his eye to her, and then infiltrates his house to avenge her. However, Young-suk is kidnapped by his subordinates, and his plans are ruined. In the end, he kills Dalguy at the end of his battles with Dalguy's men, but he suffers from severe injuries and dies with his consent to transfer the cornea.

Where you are born is called “hometown”. What do you call where you are buried? A story about 8 North Koreans who went to Moscow Film School in 1952, and sought political asylum in 1958 after denouncing KIM Ilsung. Their lives as Koreans and as filmmakers are captured through images from Moscow to Kazakhstan.

So-yeon, who has been studying in Paris for several years, returns to Seoul for summer vacation. She is drawn to Min-hwan, a divorced man whom she met in Paris, but Min-hwan is non-committal and ambiguous about his feelings toward her. Soyeon meets a new guy, Hyun-jae, who is deeply into her, she Soyeon still waits for Min- hwan`s call. She laboriously travels from Seoul to Busan, lugging around her luggage, just so that she can see Min-hwan. After the vacation is over, So-yeon returns to Paris. Even with a full package of beauty and intelligence, So-yeon has no place of her own. In Korea that is familiar but unfamiliar land to her, she spends the summer in bearing her feeling, which is not too hot, yet not negligible. Before the Summer Passes Away is the film about loneliness and longings: it is too shy to roar, too powerful to hide. With minimal narrative, the film shows a close observation on So-yeon`s sense of lose at the edge and her unending desire.

Young-gu dreams of a mysterious mummy and then meets Mira, a new classmate whose lunchtime disappearances coincide with students vanishing. He and his friends uncover a sinister trio, consisting of Mira the mummy, Dracula, and a hunchback, plotting to destroy graves and abduct villagers. When his mother is kidnapped and the villains trap everyone with their crystalline magic, Young-gu escapes, rallies his friends to fight, and at dawn’s sunlight the supernatural threat is finally banished.

Korean martial arts movie starring Ricky Jun and Lee In-Seop. Special guest Won Jin "The Scorpion King".

An omnibus film about the friendship of elderly protagonists.

The drama 'Descendants of Unicorn', which is in crisis due to a series of drop-offs by male actors. Staffs who cannot stop airing will start an emergency meeting.

This is the story of Sook-ja (Moon Hee-kyung), a female diver in the beautiful Jeju Islands who has lived a tough life, and her childish son Yool (Yeon Joon). Young man Yool dreams of becoming a writer. One day he discovers his mother, Sook-ja, has terminal cancer, but she refuses to get treated and continues diving in the water. Yool gives up his dreams as a writer and goes to his brother-in-law to ask for a job just so he can change his mother's mind. One evening, Yool comes home drunk and upset. Sook-ja can't bear the sudden pain and wakes up her drunken son.

The weak Dal-Ho lives in solitude isolated by the reality. His clinging to women is his struggle to escape from the sense of alienation. However, his simple and openhearted love affair fails all the time. Therefore, his neighbor considers him as a philanderer. The love with Seon-Hee is clumsy. Eun-Kyeong leaves him behind, because she thinks that he has no future. Mi-Na and Kyeong-Ja boycott his estheticism and pursuit of justice. However, Dal-Ho challenges for the pure future and his beloved Eun-Kyeong comes back to him.

Min-gi, who is starring in the theater's 10th-anniversary play, suffers from undiagnosed tinnitus, which causes him constant problems. Min-gi eventually loses the lead role and has a major crisis as an actor. Then one day, at a hospital, he meets actor Park Inhwan.

Documentary focuses on Sona, the daughter of the director’s brother who moved to North Korea from Japan in the early 1970s. Through Sona, the film shows the generation that migrated from Japan to North Korea and their offspring who were born and raised in North Korea.

A young girl; a lover of music, yearns for some sense of peace and identity while suffering under the oppression of mother's demands. with a little help from her dreams and the music she loves the most, she transcends her anguish via an uncanny metamorphosis.

Everyone dreams of being a pop star. But the Korean showbiz isn't only fame and glamour. For Mira, a young girl about to make her debut with a girl group, the dream turns into a nightmare. Always smiling in front of the camera, but pressure, competition within the group, and a busy schedule are taking their toll. And if that weren't enough, somebody seems to be threatening her. Or is it all just in her mind?

A young female ex-convict tries to start a new life once she regains her freedom. With the help of her parole officer, she is able to open a successful outdoor cafe. However, she quickly learns that she has a larger debt to pay to society than she thought.

While working on a case with farmers, lawyer Heo Seung comes to believe that the rural development movement is the only lasting way to preserve the identity of the country. With conviction, Seung throws himself into the rural area. However, this position is against the Japanese occupation policies and eventually, even his wife, Yun Jung-sun, ends up leaving him. The Japanese judge Masaki Hiroshi determines that Seung's rural development activities are actually a rebellion against Japan. He has Seung imprisoned as an ideology criminal. After spending five years in jail, Seung returns to the country to see his wife, Jung-sun, continuing her husband's work and waiting for him.

Haegang has been making indie films for 10 years and is preparing his first full-length film. Unfortunately, he is in trouble as his girlfriend and old colleagues turn their back on him. The conflict deepens when he meets new producer. He decides to take an action for a cut which he wishes to maintain.

Kanemoto served five years in prison for attacking Masao of the pro-North Korean organization, the killer of the president of the company who brought him up. Released from prison, Kanemoto gets injured fighting Masao again. Harumi, who lives with her brother Genichi, takes care of Kanemoto. When Genichi visits Korea and reveals the pro-North Korean organization's lies, he becomes their target. This also places the life of Harumi and their family at risk and only Kanemoto can save them.

Seung-joo, an assistant documentary director, hopes to direct his own work, but leaves for Kazakhstan to assist in filming a traditional Korean-Kazakhstan wedding. When the local director Park Yu-ra gets in a car accident, Seung-joo and Young-tae, the cinematographer, miss the wedding they were set to film. To complete the documentary, Seung-joo is forced to stage a fake wedding ceremony in Yura's hometown of Saty Village with Young-tae and Yura's uncle Georgi.

In the year 2100 the Earth is once again in danger. The group of brave teenagers set out in their giant robot to save humanity.

Kyo-hwan was not invited to the housewarming of Seung-jo and Soo-kyung today.

A movie about Genji, a Yakuza and his gang who try to break up an anti-Japanese group and Joseon's number one fighter, Kang-il during the Japanese colonial era.

A sci-fi fantasy film about aliens living together while punishing the crimes committed by Earthlings.

A young girl develops a crush on the family employee, but she must help him clear his ex-wife's name of murder.

In the Royal Mansion near the old nuclear power plant, there are people who look ordinary but have superpowers. It is not clear how they obtained their superpowers. What is certain is that it is also not an ability that can be used easily. There is a fatal flaw in Jang-ah's superpower seal wind, which occurs for just one hour after drinking 88 Coke. After one shot, you have to rest for 10 seconds. The same goes for Chi-Cheong's superpowers. His power is healing power, but he only needs to rub his palms to the point of burning them in order to show that power. The two of them go somewhere with only the original plan that Jang-ah will attack and defend, and Chi-chung will heal him if he gets hurt. Even after they have superpowers, their hard-to-do action drama begins! Not superheroes, but foolish psychics. In fact, each of us may be making our own superheroes day by day, using our own superpowers that no one knows about.