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Betrayal

To prevent an investigation into a fraudulent bidding case, Woorim Engineering & Construction drives accounting manager Park Sun-dal to commit suicide under the condition that 30 million won be given to the bereaved families. Seong-Hoon (Shin Seong-Il), an employee at Woorim Construction who went to Busan to confirm Manager Park's suicide, meets a woman named Ji-Won (Eom Aing-Ran) on his way to Seoul. When Seong-hoon finds out that Ji-won is the mistress of Hong Man-seok (Jang Dong-hwi), the president of Woorim Engineering & Construction, who is also his benefactor, he tries to give up the relationship, but the more he tries, the deeper the relationship between them becomes. Knowing this, President Hong tries to separate the two, but eventually gives up due to their love that transcends death.

Betrayal

NR 1964
Vega

As the daughter-in-law of a prestigious family, she had to live in a tearful marriage with strict mother-in-law and a young husband. Her husband, who had grown up in the meantime, returned home with a Japanese woman on her way home from studying abroad, and demanded a divorce from her. Her wife complies with her husband's request and agrees to her divorce, but when the Japanese woman learns that he is her husband, she returns to Japan. He is not healthy from drinking too much, but her wife is devoted to her husband, and only then does her husband shed tears of penance in front of her.

Vega

NR 1968
Call 112

A gang of pharmacists, intent on seizing Hyun-ju's inheritance, systematically approaches her. The leader of the gang is her ex-husband. Before they can seize her inheritance, internal conflict arises within the gang, and they are all murdered by the leader. Meanwhile, the police, aware of this, launch a nimble investigation. The leader, determined to keep her inheritance, persistently pursues her, but ultimately fails and is arrested. She is rescued from a near-death experience.

Call 112

NR 1962
Miryang Arirang

In the late Joseon period, Kim Myeong Jin, the son of an affluent family near the Miryang area, gets engaged to A-rang. But before their wedding day, A-rang is murdered and her body is nowhere to be found. In grief, Myeong Jin sells everything he owns and begins traveling to Seoul but loses his entire fortune to bandits on the way. He decides to throw himself off a cliff but then discovers a stranger about to hang himself on a pine tree and saves his life. The stranger, Oh Gap-dong, had decided to kill himself after squandering his family's fortune and experiencing his wife's passing. The two men comfort one another and go their separate ways. Little do they know that their paths will cross once more when the ghost of A-rang appears and together they help her seek retribution for her death. Only around 4 minutes of this film still remains today as the rest is currently lost.

Miryang Arirang

NR 1962
A Barren Woman

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.

A Barren Woman

NR 1969
A Shoeshine Boy

Following the death of his parents, Yeong-cheol shines shoes in the streets, struggling to care for his sick younger sister Yeong-hui and make ends meet. Despite the persuasive efforts of low-life criminal boss Wang-cho, pickpocket Jjang-gu, and prostitute Mi-hwa, Yeong-cheol vows to lead an honest life by looking after Yeong-hui with cigarette salesgirl Myeong-sun and helping newly arrived shoeshine boy Dong-seok settle in. However, a tragic accident forces Yeong-cheol to make an important decision that may change his life. ※ Sharing the same Korean title with Vittorio De Sica’s classic Shoeshine (1946), this film was noted at the time of release for its strong neorealistic approach. All of the picture elements have been lost and only 4 original sound negative reels (around 40 minutes) survive today. The plot summary and scene descriptions have been added in the form of title cards as well as a selection of production stills to aid the viewing experience.

A Shoeshine Boy

7.0 1961
The Sun and the Moon

Summaries An architecture student and a daughter of a bank branch manager are in love with each other. The love cools down as she gets to know his family ancestors were butchers. He spends his life in obscurity cursing his destiny of being born as a child of butchers. One day his father tells him a moving story of himself, describing how he overcame the handicap of being a butcher and has built up his business to a success. Then, he realizes his stupidity, decides to forget her and harbor a hope in his mind.

The Sun and the Moon

5.0 1967