Gye-nam Myeong

Romances end in blood and the frail hopes of individuals are torn apart in a vile karmic continuity of colonialism, civil war and occupation... (imdb)

A story of two 13-year-old boys in a small country village during the last days of the Korean War... (imdb)

Mak-dong, a naive young man, dreams of living and running a small restaurant together with his family. On the way back home after being discharged from the army, he saves Mi-ae, the mistress of a gang boss. She helps him get a job, and he becomes embroiled in the underworld.

To Chinese restaurant delivery boy Ju, the only joy in life is spending time at the electronic game room. One day, he is advised to log-on to a game through which the match selling girl of Andersen's fairytale is revived. Ju is drawn into the little girl's virtual reality and, like in the famous fairytale, he is given the mission to save the little girl from danger and lead her to a peaceful death. However, the two are confronted by a gigantic force called the System, that attempts to stop them. (imdb)

An Chang-jin is a barber. He chats with customers, cuts their hair, shaves them. His everyday life is so ordinary and dull at the peaceful barbershop, except that his wife is young and beautiful. Then, one day a strange customer, Kim Yang-gil, visits the barbershop. He has "HATE" tattooed upon each finger joint. He gets a shave, a haircut and demands money three times a week. The intimidator takes double money each time he visits...

A young girl is caught up in the 1980 Gwangju massacre, where Korean soldiers killed hundreds, if not thousands, of protesters who opposed the country's takeover by the military the year before. Flashbacks show the girl seeing her mother shot to death in the massacre. The film spurred the Korean public to demand the truth behind the incident, and their government eventually opened previously classified files on the massacre. (imdb)

On September 4, 1984, democracy movement leader Kim Jong Tae (Park Won Sang) is arrested and taken to an infamous interrogation facility in Namyeong-dong. For the next 22 days, he would be cruelly and continuously tortured in all manners by interrogators intent on forcing him to confess to communist collaboration. (imdb)

Su-nam has been good with her hands since she was young. Computers take over her job, but luckily she finds a new job in a small factory and gets married to a hearing-impaired man. Even with nine years of hard working they cannot afford to buy a house, and Su-nam finally decides to take out a loan and buys their home. Su-nam works hard to pay off the debt, but the situation is not getting any better. Then there comes an opportunity to pay off all her debt at once.

Soo Jin is the beautiful daughter of a rich enterprise owner, President Jang. She was tricked into returning to Seoul from studying abroad as her father wanted her to get married. Soo Jin couldn't stand her father's matchmaking candidates and concocted a scheme with her secretary Park Ae Ja to hire someone pretending to have all the qualities that her father wanted. They ended up having Kim Yong Nam to be someone he was not; well educated, rich and sophisticated. But in reality, he is a water bo (mydramalist.com)

Public service worker Joon-Yi (Kim Hyun-Sung), about to be discharged in one month, becomes involved with three women. Married woman Mi-Young is a district office official, obsessed with sex and Joon-Yi. Eun-Ji (Bien Jeong-Min) is Joon-Yi's first love and she can't get over Joon-Yi. Meanwhile, Joon-Yi is interested in Eun-Ji's younger sister Hyun-Ji (Kim Gyu-Ri) because of her brightness, but he doesn't know who he really likes. (asianwiki)

La Vie En Rose; A comic book store in Garibong-dong is run by a beautiful woman (Choi Myoung-gil) better known as Madam. This store stays open late into the night, thus attracting varied types of people such as gangsters and hustlers. (imdb)

In three parts, this film examines: a woman's common remarriage to survive after the Korean war, people living between a super-accelerated desire for Westernization while respecting traditional, cultural norms under a military regime, and a gay man's challenge to find happiness outside of marriage and the nuclear family. (BIFF)

Yoo-Joon aspired to become a distinguished reporter, but he now works as a third-rate one. He is involved in an affair with a married woman but when he hears she wants to breakup with him, Yoo-Joon decides to have her back even if it means he has to kill her husband. (imdb)