Things That Do Us Part is a documentary that reframes the stories of three women fighters who dove into a tragic war in modern Korean history, using witness statements and reenactments.
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Things That Do Us Part is a documentary that reframes the stories of three women fighters who dove into a tragic war in modern Korean history, using witness statements and reenactments.
A powerful Minister Oh sends his political enemy Governor Jeong to exile and takes his son Jeong junior as a hostage. Oh's widowed daughter becomes in love for Jeong junior but he rejects her saying he is engaged with Bae Baeng-Yi who is a daughter of a noble family in Jeong Seung Gol village. Lady Oh is driven mad at jealousy of Bae Baeng-Yi. She disguises as a shaman and invites Bae Baeng-Yi to a mountain where she kills the girl. At her funeral as Bae Baeng-Yi's coffin doesn't move, a shaman holds an exorcism and asks Jeong junior to soothe for her spirit and fidelity. Finally funeral service is over without problem. By the way lady Oh, who is annoyed by Bae Baeng-Yi's resented spirit, falls from a cliff to death in a half-mad state. Those who exploited illicit and superstition die out.
Upon hearing that her fiance has been killed in battle, a woman makes her way to the Park Pagoda to seek comfort from the monument. There she becomes acquainted with Henry Jang, a Korean-American whom she eventually marries. There is no happy ending for the two, however, because her fiance shows up alive and well, but bitter over his lover's fickle nature
Blind Jae-su is struck by a car. When he wakes up, he finds that he has switched bodies with Dalrong, the small dog he had been mistreating. In the dog's body, he tries to find a way to return to normal, but gets sidetracked when he begins a search for the ideal woman.
One year after the Korean War, the conflict had reached a stalemate. The two opposing forces began to search for a way to end the grueling war of attrition, eventually settling on a modest village called ‘Pan Mun Jom’ near Gaeseong as the designated site for negotiations. Despite initial hopes for a quick resolution, the negotiating parties encountered obstacles that prevented an agreement. Disputes over the military demarcation line and the repatriation of prisoners of war thwarted their efforts. The film peels back the layers to reveal the untold story of Pan Mun Jom, shedding light on a history that has remained hidden until now.
Setting foot in the boundary of adolescence, a blunt and naive boy feels a crush on a girl. She feels the same way, but she pretends not to. The boy thinks riding a nice bike would impress her. When he shows up with his bike, she also prepares something for him.
An undercover agent out for revenge accidentally falls for the crime boss’s daughter, who’s being pushed to take over the family empire, turning their doomed fates into a messy, high-stakes love story with danger lurking in every shadow.
Juwon, who played baseball during his school days, unexpectedly reunites with Hyeyun, his first love from long ago. She asks for his help with a baseball course exam, wanting to learn how to throw a ball far. But when Hyeyun suddenly proposes a bet, Juwon's feelings become complicated...
Kim Chang-in, a self-proclaimed ‘democratic socialist,’ and Kim Hyun-jin, who calls himself an ‘extremely centrist person,’ are ordinary young people in South Korea. While Chang-in became interested in politics because he was angry at the sight of bleeding workers at the Ssangyong Motors strike, Hyun-jin was angry at tax money being wasted on populist policies such as minimum wage and work incentives and decided to go into politics.
Hyeon-woo works in sales at a construction material company. Se-hee has a 5-year-old daughter and works at a bar. The two meet each other by chance, but it is not easy to continue seeing each other, as Se-hee has a daughter and she’s struggling with debt. They try to overcome it, but reality hits them in the face. In the end, Se-hee ends up going back to the bar without telling Hyeon-woo. Hyeon-woo works as a substitute driver at night and ends up seeing Se-hee go into a hotel with a man in a dress…
Aspiring filmmaker Hyunsu offers Miju a role, and they fall in love. As time passes, Miju grows tired of his dreaming while she struggles at work. A fight leads them to experience different July 7ths, leaving their future uncertain.
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Min-kyung takes the lead role in a short film. As time goes by, the scene is twisted, and the minute cracks between Min-kyung and director begin.
A grandmother lost her only son in a car accident. Her deceased son left her his adopted 7 year-old daughter and letters to his illiterate mother. Scared to reveal her illiteracy, she hasn’t attempted to open the letters from her son. Now, she desires to read the letters but, the only place to teach the alphabet to adult students from foreign countries is closed down as the only teacher is hospitalized. With nowhere to turn, she struggles through self-study. Dong-e, who is a 7 year-old adopted child of her son’s that he reluctantly and temporarily stays with, sees her struggle and helps her study with her books. But, Dong-e’s tutoring soon ends as she hasn’t mastered the alphabet yet herself. Now she decides to attend an elementary school in a remote town as a first grader. So it is now she who helps Dong-e with the alphabet and their awkward relationship begins to change slowly.
Gideuk and Susie take the road new home on Susie's release from Youth detention center. Apart from Gideuk who is fully hopeful, Susie is rather disturbed by her dad, Gideuk turning up in three years of time during her detention. Gideuk tries to talk to Susie hardly against the akwardness, however, they do not get along with each other somehow.
Ha-yeon feels burdened by her older sister So-min, who thinks only of herself day and night. Then one day, her brother Ha-yeon asks her own boyfriend, Kang-ho, a favor. The next day, Ha-yeon summons So-min's boyfriend Dae-heon, and her boyfriend Kang-ho visits So-min's house...
Su-gyeong, who married Kyung-ho and set up a newlywed life, has doubts about the object of Kyung-ho's dead ex-wife and his attitude toward his daughter, Yumi, who finds out from Yumi's uncle Dong-pyo that Yumi's mother died of Kyung-ho's righteousness and abused Yumi with an unabated hatred.
Yeong-ju, now an unwed mother working in a hospital, contracts TB. Her young child, now in the custody of her ex-lover, runs away from home and tries to find the remote island where his mother is living to be at her bedside.
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.
"A Crevice of Violence" is a story about a boy’s life. His mother has left the family and his father is an alcoholic. The boy is a very violent troublemaker. The stand out point of "A Crevice of Violence "is that it doesn’t only show the cycle of violation but actually questions on how to exit this vicious cycle. The film tries to find a way through the attitude of his remarried mother and his judge in charge and the facial expression of the boy when he meets them.
The story of a tiny monster named Geomdaeng struggling to succeed in checking school attendance.
After losing her son while defecting from North Korea, Myung-sun meets a fellow defector, Sin-tek, who is the leader of the Church of the Fire. Through him, Myung-sun begins to learn about the doctrines of resurrection as they settle at a small town in South Korea.
An abusive man murders his wife and father-in-law then accuses Mok-ryeon, his sister-in-law's boyfriend, of the crime. Mok-ryeon escapes custody and with his girlfriend, flees the village pursued by the killer who in turn is chased by vengeful spirits.
Here is an actor, one who has been asked to dwell in the perilous gap between text and image. In the voids where traces of the past have been erased by an unknown error, she begins to assemble her own script.
Ji-won, a playwright, tries to make her promiscuous husband, to drop his bad habits. But he continues to have affair with a widow named Eun-gyeong. Meanwhile Ji-won also meets a young actor who makes amorous advances on her. Mi-ra, a woman who had a crush on the young actor, finds out, seducing Ji-won's husband to draw her lover's attention. But when things don't work out the way she wanted she commits suicide. Watching her husband feeling no remorse, Ji-won decides to leave him quietly.
In-seon, still holding on to her late husband's ashes three years after his suicide, decides it's finally time to let him go. But when her daughter, Su-yeon, returns home and resists the idea, In-seon begins to question her decision. As tensions mount, Su-yeon tries to reclaim the ashes—only to accidentally shatter the urn. With no other choice, mother and daughter must confront their long-buried grief… and say their final goodbye on a bright, sunny day.
Venerable Aloysius Schwartz founded the Religious Congregation of the Sisters of Mary on August 15, 1964 in Amnamdong, Busan, to help the poor who were suffering through the aftermath of the Korean War. He also established Boystowns and Girlstowns to take care and educate the orphans, street children, and children from poor families. This documentary follows the life of Venerable Aloysius Schwartz, who was a good father to those in need.
The film consists of three episodes under the theme of “violence”. Episode 1. Min-Ho Win! The owner of the gas station asks Min-ho to do some errands. Not knowing what is ahead of him. Episode 2. Making Film In a place where a film about snuff-film is being made, a war of nerves between an actor and a director leads to a real violence Episode 3. My Fighting Life Standing by the side of the strong, Do-kyeong wins a fight but after being left alone, he is defeated in the end.
Seung-Hye (female), who has her dream to become a good singer, comes to Seoul and becomes acquainted with Mr. Lee, a bandmaster. Mr. Lee gives her a recommendation letter to introduce her to SeonWoo Kang, a composer. At that time, he intends to retire from pop song world owing to his incurable disease. She is helped by him, and he is also attracted by her beautiful voice to let her become a top class singer. Both love each other. He expedites his death owing to overwork, and finally dies at a hospital in the evening when her recital is held.
Su-jin and Hye-rim are the best friends but after they lost Min suk who they both had crashed on, they do not talk to each other anymore. Later, Su-jin and Hye-rim meet at Min-suk?s grave in his countryside hometown. They kept fighting even in the car and a man jumps into their way from nowhere. The guy threaten them to give a ride to certain place in the forest to meet his boss.
After recovering from leukemia, Jang Juhee, who once dreamed of becoming a filmmaker, begins working at a center for independent living for people with disabilities. There, she meets documentary director Bu Seongpil, disabled and bedridden Seon Cheol-gyu, and In-sook, who lost a family member in the Sewol ferry tragedy. Shaped by childhood memories of domestic violence and years of illness-induced isolation, Jang’s gaze and inner world begin to expand through these individuals.
Top chef Do Gun clashes with recipe-copying Jung Woo in a tense kitchen rivalry. But as sparks fly, their feud may simmer into something more.
After exacting revenge on the people who killed his father for his involvement with the 1940's independence movement, Park Dal visits his father's friend, Reverand Hwang, and becomes convinced that he should carry on in his father's place.
Thirty-six years ago, Lee Soohyun met Kim In-sun at a Korean Christian Women’s Association retreat in Germany and gifted her flowers. Despite threats from her then-husband and the disapproval of Korean society, In-sun found love and chose to be with Soohyun. Now, the two of them—who came to work as nurses in a foreign country where they knew nothing of the language—are still there and already in their 70s. For 30 years, they have lived together in Berlin and shared in all the joys and sorrows of life. Soohyun and In-sun have stood in solidarity with other foreigners like themselves while also looking after one another. They are two people who overcame boundaries. This is their love story.
If you look at my face, I'm 100% a gangster! One day, he became the most handsome guy in the squad! Police officer 'No Mi Nam' is in the midst of a criminal investigation, and unlike his nice and gentle personality, he looks more like a gangster just by looking at his face. One day, he woke up a month after his surgery following an accident while stopping a fellow detective's fight. But, when he woke up, his face changed?! He became the most handsome guy in the world from being a gangster-like to 'No Mi Nam (handsome guy)'! 'No Mi Nam fell in love with narcissism, which seems to change the way others see him. After accepting his face, he became the biggest headache of the squad and ended up being pushed into a deep-dive investigation of a hair salon on the outskirts. A huge opportunity came to my ugly self! What's the result?
Lim Seonn-yeo, 68, has never left a deep mountain village in Samcheok, Gangwon Province. Her husband, the protector of the illiterate Seonn-yeo, passed away, leaving her a will to "learn to read and write." She says that she has lived her life without any regrets because ignorant people have no dreams, but now she prepares for breaking up. She bids farewell to the cow she had been with all her life and to the house where she lived with her husband.
Second-generation migrant worker, Soo is released after receiving probation and community service sentence for his use of violence. Along with his friend Pil-sung, he ends up working as brokers for illegal migrant workers. While fulfilling his community service duty, he meets surfers. Soo falls in love with surfing as the surfers Ddong-ggo and Hae-na teach him how to surf.
The church is the body of Christ. In Greece, the church embodied a philosophy. Then in Rome, it became an institution. Spreading throughout Europe, it became one with the culture there. Traveling to the US, the church became a business. And when it arrived in Korea, it became a conglomerate. The top five largest churches in the world are located in Korea. However, Christ has long been absent in the nation. So then, what is the church? Who is Jesus Christ? What kind of world do Christians want? If the church is indeed the body of Christ, then we must ask the questions point-blank. Where do we stand in all this? And where exactly are we headed? Korean churches—“Quo Vadis?” Korean society—“Quo Vadis?”
Woo-kyeong is a masseuse. His life unfolds on the screen, which is neither to compassion nor peculiarity. He drinks coffee, cooks, makes phone calls, reads books, walks, massages, travels, and views the landscape.
Jisook works as an instructor at Smile Club, a laughter therapy program at an insurance company. She stresses the importance of laughter, and seems cheerful all the time. Yet, in reality, she finds life tough and exhausting. Then one day, life gets even more complicated when her son Jaeho uses violence against his classmate Donghyun – who happens to be the son of Heesoo, the leader of Smile Club. Since Heesoo is an important client, the incident puts Jisook in a rather difficult position.
A man travels home after receiving a call from his mother. As she copes with her past, he lends a listening ear to her woes, memories and song.
Jin-young is a student in primary school and a "model student". When her mom brings home a friend to stay at the house, Jin-young falls in love with her at first sight.
Park, a bar owner, is forced into paying extortion money to the local gangsters. When Yong-cheol, a customer, sees this, he is outraged and tries to beat up the gangsters, but he is overwhelmed by their numbers. The gangsters cut off Yong-cheol's leg to teach him a lesson. Park and a young boy assist Yong-cheol in forging a new leg out of iron to use as a weapon to defeat the gangsters.