Kim Hee-kap
1923 - 1993낙조
Lee Hyeong-Pyo
Park Nou-sik, Kim Shin-jae
Dok-gu who has seen his son's family off to America lives alone, keeping a close relationship with Bok-rye who lives at an old people's home. Won also likes Bok-ye. Since he finds out his son cannot come back, he marries Bok-rye out of anger and Won falls into sickness. One day, Dok-gu has a stroke and Bok-rye takes care of him selling snacks on the street. His son offers to take him to America but he insists on staying with his wife. Won dies blaming Dok-gu for putting Bok-rye in such hardship. Dok-gu falls out of shock at the death of Won and dies.
Setting Sun
촌놈 오복이
Im Won-jik
Kim Seung-ho, Um Aing-ran
Kind-hearted country bumpkin O-bok leads a simple life working as a long-time farmhand for the rich landlord Soon-young. When Soon-young discovers that his son Jae-seok has fallen for local girl Soon-yi, he protests the relationship and arranges for Soon-yi to be wed to O-bok instead. Despite the initial heartbreak, Soon-yi grows fond of O-bok over time and they have a daughter together named Sook-hee. However, when Jae-seok returns into Soon-yi’s life, she cannot resist his charms and runs away with him, leaving Jae-seok to raise Sook-hee on his own. Years later, Sook-hee is now a grown woman working in the city and in close contact with her father. However, a series of coincidences threaten to forcibly reunite O-bok and Sook-hee with Jae-seok and Soon-young in the most dramatic way possible.
Bumpkin Oh-bok
메밀꽃 필 무렵
Lee Seong-gu
Park Nou-sik, Kim Ji-Mi
Heo, an itinerary market dealer, had a short and passionate love with a girl called Bun when he was young and still cherishes that memory in his heart. One day, he happens to meet a young market dealer who is left-handed like him. While talking to him, he finds out that the man is actually his son.
When the Buckwheat Blooms
My Mother and Her Guest
Shin Sang-ok
Choi Eun-hee, Kim Jin-kyu
Six-year-old Ok Hee is glad when Mr. Han comes to board at her house full of women. She plays messenger for Mr. Han and her widowed mother as they quietly fall in love, but is her support enough to guard their love?
My Mother and Her Guest
서울의 지붕 밑
Lee Hyeong-Pyo
Kim Seung-ho, Heo Jang-gang
An oriental doctor Kim Hak-gyu is a cantankerous man who is the longest-term householder in a small village in Seoul. He often causes domestic trouble by being nasty to his wife and his children. Kim Hyeon-ok, a daughter of a young widow who runs Nahana Beauty Shop, is in love with Choi Du-yeol, an obstetrician across the street. Kim Hak-gyu has great distaste for western medicine, and at the same time, is jealous of the obstetrician. He always gets in the way of Choi Du-yeol. Kim's son, Hyeon-gu, dates Jeom-ryae, a daughter of a bar owner.
Under the Sky in Seoul
청춘쌍곡선
Han Hyeong-mo
Hwang Hae, Ji Hak-Ja
Myeong-ho (Hwang Hae), a middle school teacher who had grown up in poverty, and Bu-nam (Yang Hun), the first son of the president of a trading company, attend the same university. A doctor suggests that Bu-nam, who is sick due to overeating, and Myeong-ho, who suffers from malnutrition, should switch life styles for two weeks. While living in each other's house, they fall in love with each other's younger sister and get married at a joint wedding ceremony.
Hyperbola of Youth
박서방
Kang Dae-jin
Kim Seung-ho, Hwang Jung-seun
Mr. Park raises his children by repairing charcoal pits. Although ignorant and stubborn, Mr. Park has a good heart. He is displeased, however, with his eldest daughter, Yong-sun (Jo Mi-ryeong), because of her close relationship with Jae-cheon (Hwang hae), who is a scamp in his eyes. He is also unsatisfied with his second daughter, Myeong-sun (Eom Aeng-ran), for liking Ju-sik (Bang Su-il). Only his eldest son, Yong-beom (Kim Jin-gyu), is the apple of his eye, as he approves of his son's wife, Jeom-rye (Kim Hye-jeong). When Yong-beom is sent to a foreign branch office, Mr. Park is against it at first but approves of it, as he knows what it means for his son's future. Eventually, too, he begins to approve of his two daughters' relationships.
Mr. Park
The Coachman
Kang Dae-jin
Kim Seung-ho, Hwang Jung-seun
A man tries to raise his two sons and two daughters under some of the most adverse conditions known to man. The father operates a horse-drawn cart, but in a city that is modernizing after the destruction of the Korean War, automobiles are making carts obsolete. The children are experiencing difficulties as well. The eldest son has flunked the bar exam twice and is not hopeful of passing it a third time to become a lawyer. The eldest daughter is mute and married to an abusive husband. The younger daughter tries to pose as a rich university student to move up in life. The youngest son has a penchant for petty theft.
The Coachman
유관순
Yun Bong-chun, Bong-chun Yun
Do Kum-bong, Ko Seol-bong
This film is about of the life of the young patriotic martyr Yu Gwan-sun, who fought for the liberation of her country during the Independence Movement in 1919. As the Independence Movement becomes more and more intense among Korean students, the Japanese authorities order schools closed temporarily. Yu Gwan-sun (Do Geum-bong) persuades her neighbors to join the national movement, and continues her aggressive struggle against Japanese rule. An independent campaign at Aunae, a market site, is successful with the passionate participation of many people. She is arrested by the Japanese police for leading the campaign and has to endure horrible tortures. But she never gives up her fight, encouraging her cell mates to participate in the movement. She is finally taken to an underground room by the Japanese police and murdered.
Yu Gwan-Sun
돼지꿈
Han Hyeong-mo
Kim Seung-ho, Ahn Sung-ki
Son Hak-su (Kim Seung-ho) is a middle school teacher who barely gets by on his income because he's paying off a monthly mortgage for his welfare housing facility sold by the government. One day, Mr. Son and his wife make the acquaintance of a U.S. immigrant Charlie Hong (Heo Chang-kang) who is engaged in the smuggling business.
A Dream of Fortune
성춘향
Shin Sang-ok
Choi Eun-hee, Kim Jin-kyu
Chun-hyang, the only daughter of an old gisaeng named Wolmae, falls in love with Lee Mong-nyong and promises to marry him. But Lee leaves for Seoul with his father who's an aristocrat, and the new governor, Byeon Hakdo, covets Chun-hyang because she is the most beautiful girl in town. When Chun-hyang rejects his order to serve him at night, Governor Byeon sends her to jail. In the mean time, Lee passes the state exam and becomes a special undercover agent of the king. He comes back to where Chun-hyang lives to save her and punishes Governor Byeon
Seong Chun-hyang
