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After liberation, a young Korean man who had been sent to Japan for forced labor returns to his homeland. He tried to come to Seoul and make a success of himself, but couldn't find work and often went hungry, sleeping on the streets. In the end, he returns to his native village to devote his life to farming.
The second installment to BTOB's Ballad Trilogy, "Way Back Home" tells the story of three troubled boys who, after having lost their way, finally find their way back home.
Relive the unparalleled grandeur and brilliance of BTS MAP OF THE SOUL ON:E as it is released on the big screen as a part of the limited-time cinema series "HYBE CINE FEST"
A little action puts my friend in danger. I want to believe that my actions are not intended.
A painter and a female student form a delicate relationship which exhibits both artistic and evil impulses.
Hyung-geun and Dong-hwan are pushing twenty. They just want to go somewhere far away and should go somewhere. They even don't know where it is. There are some people who support them. Where they are or what do they do, it is good to be together.
Hyo-won, who dreams of becoming an actress, arrives at Seoul city after running away from country home with Eun-seo, who dropped out of high school. They are excited with their own hopes for the future. Hyo-won starts taking acting lessons from leading actor Su-yeon to become a member of the theater company. Eun-seo starts to work at a shabby restaurant when Hyo-won's lesson fee is urgent. Su-yeon teaches Hyo-won. Acting... It's about fully understanding and expressing other people's pain. But Hyo-won doesn't understand Eun-seo's pain. The same goes for Eun-seo. Life is full of questions for them
Sun-joo is a mother of two who is on her way to the beach with her daughter Hae-ji and son Geun-chul. But they run out of gas on the way and the car comes to a stop. The three of them start to blame each other in frustration and starts to fight, but why?
Disgusted with the behavior of his young step-mother, Sang-tae does a little digging into her past and discovers, among other things, that she may have killed her former lover.
The police and some gangsters scramble to hide incriminating evidence from an ambitious prosecuting attorney,
This is a road movie about a girl who always dreams and never gives up. She lives in a small town near the 'Saemangeum' tidal flat that has been drained and filled. At the same time Cha-Eun's track team is disbanded. Her coach recomends that she moves to the city where there's a school with a track team, but her father refuses to send her to the city. Her Filipino stepmom plans a trip to Seoul w
The professors' wife lives as abused mentally by her husband. One day the couple goes climbing with a young man, who works for a pharmaceutical company and often visits them on business. While they scales a cliff holding a rope, her husband under them loses his footing and falls down. When they all are about to fall, she cut the rope, so the husband died in a fall. She stands at the bar, but the court decides the case is an emergency evacuation. So she obtains an acquittal, but murderous intent in her mind must work on her.
Following an unspeakable tragedy, a rogue secret agent seeks revenge against a serial killer through a demented game of cat and mouse.
In-Ja, the madam of a cabaret is a mistress of the boss of espionage agent. She gathers information from the guests and gives it to Seon-Tae.
Middle-aged Yeong-gyeong and Su-hwan meet at the wedding party of a common friend. She passes out drunk, and he carries her home on his back. Soon this becomes a daily ritual, as the two broken beings – one’s spirit consumed by alcohol and the other’s body sapped by arthritis – begin to find strength and solace in each other. Their gentle, platonic bond – outside society, outside history – offers a chance at salvation, but is severely stressed by Yeong-gyeong’s repeated relapses.
With psychopathic mood swings, a quiet man confines his wife to a locked room, alternating between affection and cruelty aimed at her. His twisted control escalates when he turns his gaze to his sister-in-law.
So-yeong, a would-be scriptwriter and a member of the so-called “Kangaroo Tribe,” is pressed toward economic independence by Ung-seop, a hairy man who is her mother's boyfriend. Noticing that hairs are being scattered around the house, So-yeong is tormented by the voice of Hairy Monster. So-yeong tries to reveal that Ung-seop is in fact the Hairy Monster.
The story of the conflict and reconciliation between father and daughter.
This film adapts the novel by Yeonbeon authors, Liang Chun-sik and Kim Nam-hyun, for the screen. It describes the romantic stories of seventeen-year-old boys and girls, which can be applied to the general young generation of Yeon-beon these days..
A thousand-year-old snake that has transformed itself into a human, Madame White Snake (Choe Eun-hui), falls in love with a young pharmacist named Heo-Seon. Although they encounter difficulties, they are wed, and their love for each other does not change. However, Beophaeseonsa (a Zen priest) and Gwaneumbosal (the Buddhist goddess of mercy) order Madame White Snake, who had transformed into human without being granted permission to do so, to return back to the world of the gods before July 7. Grieving, she prepares to say goodbye to her beloved husband. But before she can return to the world of the gods in time, she falls into a trap set by Dae-yun (Choe Sam), who is attracted to her. Because of the trap, she is not able to keep the promised deadline, and ends up risking her life to save her husband.
A woman breaks up with her boyfriend of seven years. Devastated, she throws herself into another relationship and decides to get married, only to have her exboyfriend return to her...
The film follows the story of a grumpy elderly man, Soon-cheol, who runs a traditional family restaurant called Dongbaek for three generations. Due to economic difficulties, the restaurant faces closure, and Soon-cheol, along with his son and grandson, struggles to keep it afloat. Things take a dramatic turn when a large food corporation offers to franchise the restaurant, which initially excites the family. However, it’s soon revealed that this offer is linked to the painful history of the Yeosu-Suncheon incident, where Soon-cheol's father was killed by soldiers. The conflict between remembering the past and embracing the future becomes central as Soon-cheol grapples with old wounds.
Before deciding to register entering the university abroad, Soo-yeon who wants to be a musician faces the objection of her family who ignores her dream. She tries to find a way to make her dream come true, but the chance is not on her side. Finally, she challenges to a musician contest with her old friend, Dong-ho who is the only one trusts in her.
It was one day after summer vacation, in 2008. Sojeong, a senior high school student, lives with her sick mother, but dreams to live alone and be a musician though the reality is frustrating. Just listening to music on MP3 and writing down the lyrics of the songs she wrote on her mini-homepage is Sojeong´s only escape.
A man who can't even grasp his reality and just flirt with it. a woman who struggles gently to marry him. Why, on earth, is she obsessed with him?
Ryan and Kevin and their crew from Los Angeles are hired by U.S. Interpol to be matched up against the notorious Gambler Crew from South Korea, known to the b-boy world as the best of the best. Their mission is to gather information about Tony Kai, an "ex yakuza" member who controls the Asian underworld in the United States. Tony Kai is in South Korea planning a worldwide monopoly on drugs, sex, and gambling. Ryan and Kevin struggle as they go deeper into the Asian underworld. Ryan falls for a beautiful Korean girl named Esther who happens to be the sister of "Kicker", the leader of the mafia-run Gamblers crew. Their love is put to the test as the rivalry between the two crews escalate. As reality sets in, the crew from LA is no match against the world champion Gamblers crew in the Mach 1 competition. Ryan, Kevin and the crew go into hiding where they meet an underground b-boy legend...
When her husband goes away to America to study for three years, she gets lonely and begins to meet a young doctor. While troubled from guilty feeling, she approaches a young sculptor, In-cheol. As the anguish adds up, she writes a letter to her husband and confesses what has happened. The husband hurries to get a divorce but decides to forgive the wife in the end.
So-jeong, who lives with her older brothers, is living as a sex partner with her younger brother, Sang-woo, without her eldest brother Min-woo. However, I'm worried that Sang-woo's reaction isn't cool these days. Sang-woo started seeing his ex-girlfriend again. Meanwhile, Min-woo witnesses So-jeong and Sang-woo having sex one day...
Every day, Hoan performs as a "street clown," using his skills as a sidewalk barber to make ends meet and take care of his mother. Mrs. Le Thi Hanh suffers from Alzheimer's disease and behaves like a child. Her illness is not only a financial burden but also deprives Hoan of the chance to live freely and pursue his dreams. Despite her condition, Mrs. Hanh retains vivid memories of South Korea, where she once lived a happy life with her husband Jeong-min and their eldest son Ji-hwan before tragedy struck. One day, Hoan begins experiencing symptoms of memory loss along with epilepsy. Realizing he can no longer be his mother’s sole caretaker, he decides to take her to Korea to leave her in the care of his brother - a man Hoan has never met.
825 nude actors are used to tell the story of pre-industrial Korea, beginning with paradise and progressing into man's destruction.
Director Lee Jeong-joon's distills more than a decade of patient observation, unwavering dedication, and profound ecological insight. Long known as the "Dolphin Man" for his commitment to documenting the lives of Jeju's Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins, Lee crafts a film that compels us to fundamentally reconsider our relationship with the sea—a space shared by both human and non-human beings.
I have been pretty satisfied with my life before I got on the bus. When I do in June 2011, my whole life turns upside down. I am just a regular passenger at first. Like other people I was sorry, and felt obliged to help and care for other passengers. Then I begin to film these common heroes with my camera. Those who speak about hope, who provide it and get on the bus, Ms. Kim Jin-suk, and other crane laborers who risk their safety while demonstrating for their rights on high. She, while stationed insecurely on high, begins interacting with the world through Twitter and makes friends. Then I realize I really love her. Will we have her back safely?
A revealing, impartial, yet sometimes shocking look into the history, traditions and practices of the dying art of Korean shamanism, chronicling the lives of living, practising "hereditary" and "possessed" shamans.
Yeonju has been studying for the teacher certification exam for 5 years after failing it for 4 times. To relieve stress, she does bad things every day. One day, she meets an enemy who gets in the way of her studying, and gets arrested by the police for her deviation. Her life never goes as planned. But she gets a chance to get things right.
Jungwoo is an aspiring actor who moves from Gangneung to Seoul. With the arrival of Japanese curling athlete Hiroko to the guest house that he manages in Gangneung, a sweet romance begins! With the backdrop of the beautiful city of Gangneung, and the fragrances of the sea and coffee, this special encounter begins along with the hosting of the Pyeongchang Olympics.
Seori tells the story of a fire that broke out at an institute for girls in 1995, and a girl named Yurim, who was petrified of fire but was nevertheless determined to start a fire.
Werber Park, a former French student, volunteers a daily lecturer to teach art to student short film staff.
New York in 1960. The poor student Han Young-Min sees the want advertisement of the sperm bank and offers his sperm for 25 dollars. His sperm is given to two women, and they give birth to a girl and a boy respectively. When they are grown up, they love each other. Dr. No, who is responsible for the operation, comes to Korea in order to solve this problem. He persuades Han Young-Min, who becomes the vice president of a company, to meet the boy and girl. Consequently, he meets them, but he says that there is no relationship between them. Three persons separate from each other.
third grade of high school, Undo reigned like a school head. However, the case of the former student Yee Eun collided with the second grade Hyeon - dong of the second grade after the incident, and finally, the fortune is devastated in the battle with Hyodong. The high school students who were overwhelmed by the oppressive attitude of the reigning god like Shin, tried to bring Hyun-dong to the school head, but Hyun-dong was only quietly hanging out with his friends. However, Hyun-dong, who could not watch the luck threatening his friends, prepares for the final duel.
A deep secret from Kim Jin-woo's past is slowly eating away at him and making him act more and more irrationally. He loses his position as a philosophy professor due to his erratic behavior. He and his wife turn to a psychiatrist to get to the root of the problem.
Orphaned as a child, Tae-seob was raised by his uncle who runs a butcher shop, working without pay and calling the man “father” in return. Now grown, Tae-seob asks for wages to start a new life with the woman he loves but is met with cold dismissal. Yet when he discovers his uncle freely spending money to hide an affair, Tae-seob sees an opportunity. But as he pulls one thread after another, Tae-seob finds himself trapped in a web of deceit far more dangerous than he imagined.
Housewife Eun-ha is busy every day: In addition to taking care of her husband who doesn’t help out at all and her willful daughter and son, she has to care for her nagging mother-in-law, who is nearly bedridden.
A boy who enjoys surfing under the hot sun, meets Haena, a girl who sings under the dark moonlight with her guitar in tow.
Grindcore punks Bamseom Pirates make music suitable for a sick society.
Everyone mentions her when asked who the 1st generation of jazz musicians is in Korea, adding that jazz wouldn't have been continued in Korea if not for her. It's Park Seong-yeon, the musician who ran Korea's first jazz club - Club Janus - and she provided it for other musicians to perform. Diva Janus follows the late Park's footsteps through her past and interviews by her peer musicians.
Jeong-woo, who grew up with Han-na under their adoptive mother, goes abroad to contribute to a difficult family environment. However, after hearing the news of the death of his adoptive mother in a hit-and-run traffic accident, he returns to Korea, and found out that Cheol-jin, a member of the local organization Taechangpa, and former classmate of Han-na was involved. Meanwhile, Taechangpa joined hands with the Japanese yakuza organization to expand its power. They kidnapped Han-na to catch Jeong-woo, who was tightening them up. This makes Jeong-woo even angrier. The anger of a man who lost everything explodes!
The film centers on independence and intelligence of a woman who makes active choices regardless of social norms and ethics. The main character is a divorcee, Eul-hye, and the story unfolds as she encounters different men and experiences with dramatic incidents and conflicts.
The director's father, who did not know how to use a computer, left her an autobiography via email. It includes his whole life through many notable events such as the Korean War, the Vietnam War, 88's Seoul Olympic, New Town Development, etc.