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Recently released from prison, Cheol-ho is expelled from his brother's house after he beats his sister-in-law. His brother decides that the family would be better off if Cheol-ho were dead and tries to arrange it.

One of the major works by South Korean feminist film collective Kaidu Club, this short is a dynamic, idiosyncratic, and mosaic-like portrait of Korean life, culture, and people who dream of a unified North and South.

Dong-su, a retired criminal, is tempted back into robbing when his friend tells of a plan to rob a racetrack. They select a couple of other professional criminals to help them commit the perfect crime.

Seung-ho struggles to understand why his wife kept the fact that she had a daughter in Korea a secret from him all these years. Now the girl unexpectedly has shown up on their doorstep in San Francisco hoping to undergo surgery in te USA and asking for her mother's financial support.

Mun-ho takes Jeong-hw for a prostitute and is very rude to her on a public street. Despite this, Jeong-hwa, who is actually very innocent, falls in love with him.

Spirits of Chun-Sam's mother and wife, who are raped and severely murdered by Rang-Son and his followers, appear to kill 4 knights. Surprised by this, the lord asks Chun-Sam to help Rang-Son to seize the ghosts. Ghosts recognize him and avoid fighting. But his wife's spirit can't tolerate longing for him and appears to him to spend one night in defiance with her mother-in-law's dissuade. Rang-Son understand the situation and tries to catch the ghosts by using Chun-Sam as a bait, but the ghosts kill his followers. As Chun-Sam finds the truth, he kills Rang-Son. When Chun-Sam builds graves for his mother and wife, two ghosts revive from death and appear in front of him

Ha-rim dotes on her ailing husband until his abuses become too great. She divorces him despite her undiminished love for him. Ha-rim then tries to start her life over until someone suggests to her the idea that her husband may have driven her away to avoid causing more pain as his health worsens.

Based on the life of Heo Jun. The son of a low-level politician, Heo Jun studied medicine. He soon became more sought-after than his teacher and his social status was officially increased until he was granted nobility and allowed to be the king's personal physician. Surviving several plots against him by the jealous nobles, Heo Jun eventually succumbs to the black plague.

The subordinates of the demon boss Yang Doo-seok attack the Korean people's wandering village and kidnap young women. Yang Du-seok sends the women to King So-rim, and King So-rim moves the women through his subordinate manager, but the women are taken away by Nakamura's surprise attack. At this time, Geoam appears and defeats Nakamura and Yang Doo-seok, and finds his younger sister In-sil to find a new life.

In-chul in his fifth year gets lost due to a ship wreck on his way back from a remote island and drifts to the border between the South and North Korea. In-chul meets North Korean boy Dong-man who collects used metals for living. Although difference of their background limits their conversation, Dong-man is moved by In-chul's innocence and cross the border with him. Unfortunately, they get shot by the army of North Korea and die.

Sug-i, a poor North Korean girl is ordered by the communists to go into the mountains and bring wild ginseng for the Red Chief. She wanders around in Mountain Geumgang, where she slips over a rock. Ttoli lives in the mountains with the wild animals and is also called Jang-gun. He saves Sug-i with his animal friends. Through Sug-i, he comes out into the world and comes to learn of his past. His parents had tried to escape from North Korea but had been arrested, and Ttoli had been abandoned. Meanwhile, with the Red Chief’s birthday approaching, communists force workers to “dig the tunnel faster,” “make a trench,” and “bring wild ginseng.” Ttoli, catches on to the communists’ plans. Together with his friends, he defeats the North Koreans who were digging the third tunnel, saves his father who was among the prisoners, and finally comes face to face with the Red Chief.

After the Korean War, Young-gu and his family establish a successful restaurant in Seoul. Their son grows up to graduate from university and eventually becomes a prosecutor, fulfilling his parents’ hopes for upward mobility. Proud but socially awkward, Young-gu becomes involved in a series of comedic situations that test those around him. Over time, his sincerity wins people over, and the family looks ahead to a stable and happy future.

Yeong-cheol, at only 13, is the head of his family and takes care of his mentally incompacitated father and 2 younger brothers. The neighbors take pity on the family and arrange for a young woman to marry Yeong-cheol's father so the children can have a legal guardian.

Yeong and Hyeob are young underground musicians and very much in love until the day wehn Yeong witnesses Hyeob kissing a wealthy fan. She leaves him effectively breaking up their singing duo. She begins helping her friend Woo-jin in establishing a youth center but Woo-jin's estranged wife and a bitter Hyeob unite to make the pair miserable.

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Do-do, who receives an order from the Tiansanjin-in to rescue the living beings who are in jeopardy, goes to Changchun, Manchuria. He delivers the command book with the blood plasma of five fingers to the villains such as Takni Gubong and Myung Rae, and a bloody battle ensues between them. On the other hand, Yeon-yeon-sim, who regards Il-do as the enemy of his deceased father, joins and joins the three old ladies, and the fight intensifies. However, the battle is engulfed in chaos as the red-faced poison ivy and the villains of the Seven Great Gates flock to the turquoise jade Gwaneum Buddha statue. In the end, Yeon Ja-sim resolves the misunderstanding about Il-do and joins Il-do to defeat the Seven Great Monks who covet the statue of the Buddha Gwaneum.

A ruthless Warlord from Manchuria builds a martial arts labyrinth that contains 18 martial art amazons, many try to enter but none leave, until Dragon Lee, seeking to avenge his father.

Jung Kyung-hwa started teaching at the age of 18 and she begins a new career as a journalist in Youngnam Daily. When her first article appeared on the newspaper, she felt happy. But she was enraged when her exclusive story about the corruption of an orphanage got ignored. In the meantime, she met another journalist, Kim and managed a life of a wife and a journalist through the times of the student revolution in 1960 and the military coup in the following year. She did catch the exclusive interview with President Pak Jung-hi and contributed to enhance the Youngnam Daily's name.

Cheon Do-won and blind Seol Hie attempt to regain the mystic swords 'Earth' and 'Heaven' from the bandits who have stolen them.

Jane follows her diplomat father around the world while finishing high school. At her father's request she settles in Korea to attend college and learn about her native land. She meets Yu-Hun, a simple guy unsullied by any foreign nonsense. She falls for his earnest philosophy and charm. With all the friction between worldly knowledge and the simple life, will their love ever be fruitful?

A look at the incidents of June 25, 1950 which marked the beginning of the Korean War and which found the South to be woefully unprepared.

Choi, Mun-oh decides to become a police officer over the objections of his girlfriend. He hopes to serve his country and is determined to fight the prejudices and stereotypes the public holds of the police through nobility and honesty

A narcotics detective is kidnapped by gang members in front of his girlfriend, Mary. In order to find him, Mary recovers the drugs seized by the police and approaches the organization.

One of Han Ok-hee’s renowned pieces called The Hole uses the flicker, oblique angles, the cross-cutting of reality and fantasy to express inner entrapment and the desire for liberation. Han Ok-hee’s The Hole, The Rope and Untitled not only experimented with cinematic forms of expression, but also played an important role in the protest against forms of expression in experimental films and the artistic protest against the social suppression and censorship in 1970s Korea. (Art Cinema OFFoff)

A 1972 film directed by Shin Sang-ok and starring Yoon Jung-hee. For this film, Yoon Jeong hee won the Best Actress Award at the 10th Blue Dragon Film Awards in 1973.

Also known as Hong Kong.

In the 21st century, the powerful nations of the Earth have launched into fierce competition over natural resources found on the newly discovered planet Gradioras. But each time a probe is launched to extract resources from Gradioras, monsters appear and threaten life on Earth. As Baeklim University professor Heinrich Park studies the monsters, he discovers that the monsters are receiving orders from someone through artificial brains which have been implanted in each monster. Professor Park develops a gamma ray in order to defeat the monsters, but Spectre, an international crime syndicate, has other plans. Directed by Yu-soo Yong, the film is a representative work from Korea's animation boom period.

shows visual and metaphorical representation using rope as a motif through various rope images and meanings.

Headmaster Yoon at Neungkol has four sons. The eldest son named Dong-Cheol dies at the war. Yoon adopts Yuriko, a Japanese orphan, as his daughter at 1945 Liberation. The second son named Dong-Min devotes himself to the communist ideology to quarrel with his father with the help of Won-Kyu. One day Yoon is killed with rifles by Won-Kyu, and Yun's wife adopts Keun-Shik, Won-Kyu's son, as her son. At the occurrence of 1950 Korean War, the third son named Dong-Seok becomes a policeman. The youngest son named Dong-Kuk and Keun-Shik escape to Pusan. Dong-Kuk becomes a South Korea Army's soldier, while Keun-Shik becomes a smuggler. Dong-Min is killed on the charge of a communist, while Keun-Shik becomes a millionaire. Dong-Seok kills himself at 1961 students revolution, while Keun-Shik is put in jail in 1962 military revolution.

Mrs. Kang, a war widow, devotes herself to bring up her three daughters. She gets a nickname the tigress due to her obstinate way of living. Mrs. Kang surmounts all of difficulties from war and exemplifies herself by raising her three daughters who become sincere and hard-working ladies.

An experimental short film by Han Soon-ae

After liberation, Seong-jun, who escaped to South Korea, earns a living by serving as a Jiget-gun. It is a time when the two Koreas split and the ideological confrontation intensified, but Sung-jun refuses to be caught up in any ideology. However, when he encounters the atrocities and conspiracies of the communists, the Jeonpyeong Action Group, his beliefs change. He joins the Northwest Youth Corps with his comrades to crush the communist conspiracy.

Han Ok-hee's Three Mirrors fantastically expresses the world of a woman's desires, and the surrealist screen composition, the image of a symbolized candle, the nude female body, and the everyday will to break the suffocating wall of reality are poignantly reflected in the flow of the image.

When Su-Jeong lives lonely with her daughter Eun-Hee in a mountain villa, Jang Il-Hwan, who deserted her 20 years ago to succeed, appears to her. She thinks he went to study abroad but he tells her he was forced to work in a labor camp in Sakhalin by Japanese and spent a long time there. But she doesn't forgive him. While Eun-Hee loses her eyes in a fall when she is shocked as she finds Il-Hwan is her father. When the mother and daughter are in despair, somebody offers them the cornea. As soon as the operation is successfully finished, they finally know that the donator is Il-Hwan. Su-Jeong looks for Il-Hwan in grief but he already died of cancer.

After the death of her kindly and protective grandmother, Yeong-ah learns that she was adopted and her abusive, unhappy family is not her real one so she sets out to locate her birth mother.

An experimental short film by Lee Jeong-hee

It depicts a dog being dragged by the hand and the reflection of humans in the dog's eyes, and uses animation techniques to capture the image of a line that starts from the umbilical cord and goes through all the panoramas of life to the hanging rope.

Yeong-cheol, at only 13, is the head of his family and takes care of his mentally incapacitated father and two younger brothers. The neighbors take pity on the family and arrange for a young woman to marry Yeong-cheol's father so the children can have a legal guardian.

Film '74-A and Film '74-B are abstract experiments in which she cut and pasted films taken while running in Myeongdong, scraps of American movies, scribbles on sound magnetic film, and dots on lead film, and titled them according to the style of title construction (no title or strange symbols) that was popular among Western artists at the time.

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Hyeon-ki, nicknamed 'Oddball' by his classmates, is a highschool taekwondo expert. When a beautiful, but arrogant, rich girl requests his help, he at first refuses until he, in turn, needs help to save his sick friend.

Prosecutor Song Kuk Jin expanded his private funds to run an accommodating Institute Hee Mang Ja Yul Won for children who committed crimes before. One day, a woman police officer Kim Seong Suk is dispatched there for one-person-one-skill education.

Two high school students facing difficulties at both school and home decide to break up and meet again in the future once they have overcome their hardships

Gil-nyeo runs an inn with her young daughter Myeong-ah in a fishing village. However, her local wives agree to banish her, but she fails to convince her that it is her maiden's fault that her husbands spend her years on her drinking and gambling. One day, Jun-gi, a young man from the village, and Choi In-gyu, the owner of a salt farm, make a scheming offer to Gil-nyeo, who is collecting money like a scoundrel, to pay a large sum of money for her cockle farm. However, when it is approved as a common farm, Joon-gi frames her maiden and sends her to prison. One day, her long-daughter, who came out of her sentence, donates her belongings to the villagers who are frustrated by the failure of her cockle farming, and Joon-gi falls in love with her.