Ha Myeong-jung

The film is based on the same titled 1979 novel written by Yi Munyol. A detective searching for the cause of a young man's death uncovers a melodramatic story involving prostitutes and religion. (wikipedia)

A pair of friends struggle through university and romance in the turbulent 1970s in Korea.

Styled like a road movie, the film follows a detective assigned to a mysterious murder case. (yesasia.com)

It is the 1930s and Korea is under the Japanese occupation. The Korean people barely survive day to day under the cruel and difficult conditions of the Japanese. (koreanfilm.or.kr)

Na Du-su (Lee Seung-hyeon), who sports the nickname of "Yalkae" (meaning "cheeky, cocky person"), has been a high school sophomore for two years. His partner-in-mischief Yong-ho (Jin Woo-young), whose father runs a hospital, is also repeating his grade. Together, they play pranks on their friends and teachers and neglect their studies, thereby earning a notorious reputation as "problem"students. (koreafilm.org)

Jin-suk escapes from North Korea and makes a new life for herself and her daughter in Seoul. Believing that she will never see her husband again, Jin-suk marries air-force pilot, Min-su, to give her daughter a father figure. However, her husband soon defects into South Korea wanting to locate his wife and find freedom to live as he pleases ... (imdb)

Oh Su-bi's husband, Shin Hyun-wu, is in jail for involuntary homicide. For the past two years, Su-bi has visited her husband every week. Though she is anguished by Hyun-wu's affairs, Su-bi is unable to divorce him even though everyone thinks she should. While visiting her husband, Su-bi meets Kim Dong-yub, a student of art, and feels his sincerity. One day, Su-bi runs into an old boyfriend, Kim Mun-ho, who lives in the same apartment complex. They engage in an affair... (Korean Classic Film)

AKA The Family Pedigree; In Japanese occupied Korea, a morally conflicted Japanese officer is sent to the house of a Korean man who refuses to change his family name to a Japanese name. (imdb)

A reporter finds himself torn between differing political beliefs after the Korean liberation from Japan. (imdb)

Rare Korean Film.

In 19th-century Korea, a woman is saved from a suicide attempt and brought back to the village of her rescuer. Here, she is regarded with fear and suspicion, with many believing she will bring them bad luck owing to the pronouncements of a corrupt shaman.

Not long after he married, Yoo Shin has to enter the army leaving behind his wife Jil Rye and daughter Yong Bun. He is taken a prisoner of war in a battlefield. Without knowing this, Jil Rye and Yong-bun firmly hope Yoo Shin's safe return from the war while they overcome temptation, poverty, epidemics and even drought. But an influential man of their village rapes Jil Ryel and Yong Bun. Yoo decides to take revenge.

A naive country girl accepts a position in Seoul unaware of how ill-prepared she is in the ways of the world and the free-thinking ways of the city.