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댁의 아빠도 이렇습니까 (1971)
Character: N/A
Minsu and Insuk are a happily married couple until Minsu's chance encounter with a woman named Younghee changes everything.
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삐에로와 국화 (1982)
Character: N/A
The spy Im Su-myung refuses to speak. Kang Sin-jung is the lawyer appointed for Su-myung's defense. Sin-jung's interest is peaked. Su-myung was the youngest son of a ruined landowner. When two of his brothers defect to North Korea, the police torment the remaining family. In order to find out the truth about communism, Su-myung goes to the North too, leaving behind his other brother to watch over their mother. In North Korea, the three brothers are persecuted for being members of the Communist Party in South Korea.
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그 여자 사람잡네 (1980)
Character: Hyeon-woo
Hyeon-woo finds himself a widower when his wife accidently kills herself with natural gas. A year later, he becomes acquainted with a young woman who wants to be a singer. He helps her, but when she is finally on the road to success, she takes his money and leaves. Hyeon-woo becomes embittered towards women until he meets Jin-suk, However, her brother may stand in the way of their union.
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아메리카 아메리카 (1988)
Character: N/A
A young Korean-American accidently kills someone and spends the next 7 years in prison. When released, she joins up with a middle-aged Korean man looking for his wife and an illegal immigrant on the run. Together they travel to Lake Tahoe and find redemption along the way.
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下宿生 (1966)
Character: Park In-seok / Kang Min-gu
A melodrama about a man whose girlfriend leaves him for another man after his face is disfigured. The man gets plastic surgery, then tracks down his old girlfriend to make her regret her past actions.
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춤추는 딸 (1986)
Character: N/A
Su-hee, who grew up with a single father, decides to give up her studies due to the recurrence of heart disease in her younger sister Jeong-hee and the loss of her father's job. Afterwards, Soo-hee gets a job at a disco club run by Madam Kim to pay for her Jeong-hee's hospital bills, where she is popular for her outstanding beauty. However, Soo-hee runs into her father, who, like her, finds her ex-girlfriend Madam Kim to save her Jeong-hee's hospital bills, and she learns about the relationship between the three. Shocked by her, her father runs out into the street and dies in a car accident, and Soo-hee vows revenge on her mother for abandoning herself. However, after the successful operation of Jeong-hee through her mother's love, her three mothers and daughters embrace each other in love.
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창공에 산다 (1968)
Character: N/A
The film, which was shot to promote the Korean air force team, depicts the story of air force students who are assigned to their base after hard training.
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여자가 고백할 때 (1969)
Character: N/A
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.
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위기의 여자 (1987)
Character: N/A
Ha Kook-jin, a physician, meets Noh Ae-ri and his group who came to broadcast at the ski resort where he went with his wife's life. With this opportunity, Kook-jin appears on Ari's radio program, is attracted to being an open divorcee living with her daughter, and eventually confesses her relationship with Ari to her wife and turns back. After being shocked, Jang-sang finally realizes the willingness to go alone by traveling with his daughter In-ae, who is studying abroad.
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그래 그래 오늘은 안녕 (1976)
Character: N/A
A boxer, recently released from prison after serving sentences for throwing a fight and assault, finds his girlfriend dying from a brain tumor.
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가로수의 합창 (1968)
Character: N/A
Cheol-woo, a Korean law student at Waseda University in Tokyo, secretly leads a student reading club that doubles as an independence movement. He falls in love with Yumiko, daughter of Miike, a Japanese official behind colonial policies, and struggles with their forbidden romance.
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왕십리 (1976)
Character: Min Jun-tae
After fourteen years in Japan a small-time crook returns to his hometown.
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혈맥 (1963)
Character: Geo-buk
The story takes place on a mountain slope where defectors from North Korea live. These families sell cheap things such as socks and pens to make a living and there is a serious gap between the parents and their children. A widower Kim Deok-sam nags his son Geo-buk to join the American army. Ok-Mae who lives next door teaches her daughter Bok-soon traditional Korean folksongs and forces her to become a gisaeng.
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마유미 (1990)
Character: Investigator Lee
Two North Korean terrorists posing as Japanese tourists under the names of Shin Icho and Ma Yumi, blow up a Korean Airline flight enroute to Baghdad. When investigators catch up with the two in Bahrain, they take suicide pills but Ma Yumi is revived and forced to stand trial for her crimes.
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두 아들 (1971)
Character: N/A
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.
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가버린 사랑 (1973)
Character: N/A
Su-il goes overseas to study with his future father-in-law's financial assistence. Over time he falls out of touch with the family because of his studies. His girlfriend's family begins struggling financially, and after failing to contact him, his girlfriend marries a rich man to solve her families economic situation.
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안개낀 草原 (1967)
Character: N/A
A woman attempts to seduce a rich man so she can convince him to help him pay for her dying sister's hospital bill.
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갈망 (1968)
Character: N/A
A doctor is shocked to learn that his girlfriend had formerly been the mistress of a married man.
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여(女) (1968)
Character: N/A
A man meets a woman on his hiking trip to Mountain Seorak, but she suffers from incurable diseases. He becomes infatuated with her hair. When he tells her about his feeling she promises him that she would leave her hair after she dies as part his heritage for the man. But when he looks for her later she is already dead, and her hair was already sold to another person. He meets another woman he becomes intimate with, but finds that she is his biological mother.
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자유처녀 (1982)
Character: N/A
A Korean woman raised in Spain with European values towards life and romance finds living in her ancestral land stifling and it eats away at her vitality.
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青春教室 (1963)
Character: Park Chan-sik
While the students, full of vigor in their twenties, make a stand against their parents who regard dating as a sin, they enjoy their springtime of life to the full showing affection in their own way. In the meantime, their parents get to understand them and their children receive their parents' blessing.
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속 내시 (1969)
Character: N/A
After Queen Shin is dethroned, a power struggle erupts among King Jung-jong's concubines who hope to take the queen's place. Song Min-dol, a eunuch who despises the way the court treats him, introduces his sister to the king in the hopes that she can claim the throne. However, he is unaware that by doing so, he has signed her death warrent and unintentionally causes the deaths of everyone he cares about
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직녀성 (1968)
Character: 남편
As the daughter-in-law of a prestigious family, she had to live in a tearful marriage with strict mother-in-law and a young husband. Her husband, who had grown up in the meantime, returned home with a Japanese woman on her way home from studying abroad, and demanded a divorce from her. Her wife complies with her husband's request and agrees to her divorce, but when the Japanese woman learns that he is her husband, she returns to Japan. He is not healthy from drinking too much, but her wife is devoted to her husband, and only then does her husband shed tears of penance in front of her.
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삼일천하 (1973)
Character: N/A
During the last days of the Yi dynasty, conflict arises between the China-leaning conservatives, and the Western-learning and Japan-leaning reformers over how to rule Korea in the future. The reformer Kim Okgyun helps persuade the king to announce Korea's independence, breaking with China. When a conservative agent informs China, Chinese troops enter Korea and end the reign of independence after three days.
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석녀 (1969)
Character: N/A
Ji-won, a playwright, tries to make her promiscuous husband, to drop his bad habits. But he continues to have affair with a widow named Eun-gyeong. Meanwhile Ji-won also meets a young actor who makes amorous advances on her. Mi-ra, a woman who had a crush on the young actor, finds out, seducing Ji-won's husband to draw her lover's attention. But when things don't work out the way she wanted she commits suicide. Watching her husband feeling no remorse, Ji-won decides to leave him quietly.
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우리에게 내일은 있다 (1976)
Character: N/A
Han Jeong-ah, born to a poor family, completed middle school with the help of Mrs. Yuk Young-soo, but finding it difficult to advance to high school, she takes a job at a textile factory in Masan. That company is planning to establish a vocational high school. However, as orders increased, they find themselves in a position where they have to convert the school under construction into a farm.
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너 또한 별이 되어 (1975)
Character: Sang-gyu
A butterfly flies from the mountain to the city. Sang-Kyu, who works in a company, buys a house in the suburbs and lives with his wife and daughter, Yun-Jeong. But Yun-Jeong becomes a somnambulist because of the illusion of a butterfly flying to the house. Sang-Kyu happens to know Mi-Wu, a singer, who loves Song Cheol-Ho but wanders in her life after his death. On the other hand, Yun-Jeong regains her consciousness with the help of an English psychicist and a nun. After Sang-Kyu has a sex with Mi-Wu, he falls out of the window and loses his consciousness. As she feels affection for Sang-Kyu, Mi-Wu becomes a butterfly in the soul world and leaves him.
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로맨스 빠빠 (1960)
Character: Barun
A middle-aged man is laid off from work but is too proud to tell his family. His children, however, learn of the situation and take jobs of their own to help him save face.
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공처가 삼대 (1967)
Character: N/A
A grandfather, his son, and grandson are all henpecked husbands. A comedy picturing these three henpecked men's lives at one family.
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모래성 (1989)
Character: N/A
Se-hie decides to break off her affair with Jin-hyun after she meets his wife at a publisher's party. However, Jin-hyun's wife is not going to make things easy on Se-hie once she realizes what has been going on.
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잃어버린 태양 (1964)
Character: Seo Sang-cheol
A bar manager deals drugs on the side and tries to recruit her employees, friends and customers.
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이쁜이 (1964)
Character: Nam Jeong-hak
A woman is in domestic service after going up to Seoul. She loves a university student of a rich family and gives birth to a baby. But his parents object to their marriage, so she becomes a butt for laugh. At length, the parents get impressed by her good nature and allow them to marry.
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長相憶 (1967)
Character: Lee Sang-hyun
Overseas student Zheng Yihua and her native Korean classmate Soo-ok are bosom friends. Suspecting appendicitis, Zheng is rushed to the hospital for an emergency operation performed by Lee Sang-hyun. Soo-ok falls head over heels for the surgeon, who ironically takes a fancy to his patient. The romance turns the friends into foes. An embittered Soo-ok ruins Zheng's reputation with malicious gossips intended for Zhang Zhen, Zheng's father's personal assistant and the daughter's fiancé during his business trip to Korea. The wary mother of Lee demands the girl's parting from his son. Answering her lover's plea, Zheng stays, quietly enduring the scorn rained down on her from the mother. Having had enough of slander and accusations, the foreigner returns home, vowing never to return. Even the blessing from Lee's father fails to change her mind. Lee arrives at the airport, looking forlornly over the runway where the plane takes off.
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춘몽 (1965)
Character: The male patient
While under the effects of anasthesia in a dentist's office, a young man and woman fantasize a romantic triangle between themselves and the dentist.
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지옥의 링 (1987)
Character: N/A
Ka-chi who spent a miserable childhood starts out looking for Eom-ji, who used to be at the orphanage with Ka-chi and was adopted by rich parents. When he finds Eom-ji, he hesitates to approach her for she became a member of high class society.
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내가 사랑했다 (1982)
Character: N/A
The poet Ha Bin meets with Nam Mi Ri on a rainy day which brings them misfortune. The next day, Ha Bin goes to see Mi Ri but meets her fiancee, Son Du Ho, instead. Du Ho is the executive in charge of overseas business at the company of Mi Ri's father. He is also the boss of a drug smuggling ring. Mi Ri's stepmother, Kang Hye In, is the director of domestic sales at Dong Hae Trade. She combines forces with Kwon Ki Pyo, Du Ho's rival, to try and take control. Mi Ri tries to find an escape route through Ha Bin.
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아찌 아빠 (1995)
Character: N/A
A 36-year old detective falls in love with a nihilistic 19-year old shop-lifter and wonders if the relationship which develops can last.
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만추 (1966)
Character: N/A
A well behaved female prisoner, on parole, is set to return to prison. On the train ride back to prison she encounters a man who is actually a fugitive.
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땅콩껍질 속의 연가 (1979)
Character: Do-il
An unmarried man in his mid-thirties meets a homeless woman. He allows her to live with him. In return, she must do the household chores. However, to avoid trouble from their conservative landlord, they must pass themselves off as married.
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초연 (1966)
Character: Jin-woo
O Jin-u of a rich family and a female private tutor at his house are in love, but his family are against their marriage and send him to America. Before he leaves for America, they hold their own wedding and vow to love forever. But once out of sight, her devotion weakens with time and falls in love with Jin-u's friend Seong-hun. Hearing about the fact, Jin-u hurriedly returns to fight a duel with him...
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두견새 우는 사연 (1967)
Character: N/A
The only son of a government official Yun loves Ok-hwa, the daughter of former gisaeng Gye-seon. But his father doesn't feel good about having a daughter of a former gisaeng as his daughter-in-law. He matches him instead with the only daughter of another official. Soon, Ok-hwa dies of lovesickness missing Yun so much. The ghost of her appears to Yun, who betrayed her and married another woman, to make him repent for his fault.
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고슴도치 (1977)
Character: 살모사(정호)
The famous detective called 'the Hedgehog' finds himself the reluctant pawn of a North Korean spy who is trying to gain control of the Busan smuggling operations.
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아빠는 보디가드 (1995)
Character: N/A
An over-protective father seeks professional advice on how to deal with his two daughters who are young adults and have begun dating.
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대석굴암 (1965)
Character: N/A
This film portrays the construction of Seokguram Grotto during King Gyeongdeok's reign in Silla. It underscores the importance of national unity to overcome crises and highlights the love story between Mokryeon-agi and Abiru. The movie reflects the era's anti-Japanese sentiment and the belief that national unity can address challenges more effectively than military build-up.
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어미 (1985)
Character: N/A
After the rape and subsequent suicide of a college student, her mother takes revenge on those responsible.
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누가 용의 발톱을 보았는가 (1991)
Character: Kim Eui Chang
Ji-won, a news anchor woman, witnesses Jung Yong-wook, an emerging leader of the ruling party, being terrorized. She sees the incident from car parked on a deserted road as she was enjoying a secret redez-vous with Park In-gyu, the presidential candidate of the opposition party. She barely escapes being killed herself. The country is thrown in turmoil with the news of Jung Yong-wook's alleged suicide, and Park In-gyu urges Ji-won to keep quiet.
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누가 용의 발톱을 보았는가 (1991)
Character: Kim Eui-chang
Ji-won, a news anchor woman, witnesses Jung Yong-wook, an emerging leader of the ruling party, being terrorized. She sees the incident from car parked on a deserted road as she was enjoying a secret redez-vous with Park In-gyu, the presidential candidate of the opposition party. She barely escapes being killed herself. The country is thrown in turmoil with the news of Jung Yong-wook's alleged suicide, and Park In-gyu urges Ji-won to keep quiet.
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바람아 말하라 (1965)
Character: N/A
Wanho and Kyunghui go camping, but Gwisun secretly loves Wanho. After an accident, Wanho and Gwisun fall in love. When they return to Seoul, Gwisun's life takes a drastic turn. Just as she contemplates suicide, an unexpected twist alters her fate.
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가정교사 (1963)
Character: Jeon Yeong-gil
Two half brothers love a private tutor hired by their parents. She is more fond of the younger brother who's jovial and honest than the older brother who's unmanly and timid. But she cannot choose any of them because she's afraid that she would cause more trouble between the brothers who already hate each other. She tries first to make the brothers come to terms with each other.
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들국화는 피었는데 (1974)
Character: N/A
A look at the Korean War through the eyes of a mute boy who was kept as a mascot by a regiment of soldiers near the front lines.
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군번없는 용사 (1966)
Character: N/A
In around the 1950s. A man in charge of a guerilla unit is hiding in the Masingryeong Mountains. On the other hand, his brother, a high government official in the North Korean Ministry of Defense has his father killed blaming him a reactionary. He suffers greatly from the guilt of killing his father and finally decides to give himself up to his brother's guerilla unit. Tragically, however, he is shot to death on his way to the unit to surrender. At his last breath, in his brothers arms, he gives his brother the logistics secrets of the North Korean army.
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0時 (1971)
Character: 박
Jang Jung-Han is a commander of 330 unit who is with his wife and son Kyu-Shik. By chance Kyu-Shik meets a country boy In-Dol who asks him to find out his sister. The 330 unit comes upon Kyu-Shik's kidnap while it is searching for a couple burglar on motor cycle. Kim Min-Su stole money to pay for his son's medical charge 7 years ago. At that time he solicited Jang Jung-Han not to arrest him but he is arrested and jailed. After finishing his imprisonment, he finds that his wife remarried and his son is dying of maltreatment. He kidnaps Kyu-Shik to retaliate, but he gives up because Kyu-Shik is so simple and innocent. The commander solves the motor cycle case and finds that the woman is In-Dol's sister who feels regret her faults.
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전설따라 삼천리 (1968)
Character: N/A
Three traditional Korean folktales. Story 1: The kindness and good deeds of a poor couple earns them a bag of gold from heaven. Story 2: A brave man battles a bloodthirsty ghost. Story 3: A man must choose between devotion to his lover or duty to his parents.
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폭군연산 (복수·쾌거편) (1962)
Character: Prince Jin-seong
Prince Yeonsan-gun turns into a tyrant out of grief for his mother's death. He orders beheadings of all the officials who displease him or who advised the previous king to depose the queen. He becomes crueler by the day. But in 10th year of his reign, he is kicked out of the throne and dies a tragic death.
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상사초 (1968)
Character: N/A
Two traditional stories. In the first, a girl marries the bravest man in the village so she can send him into a monster's lair to collect an mystic herb which can save her father's life. In the second story, even death cannot prevent a devoted wife from helping in her husband's success.
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말띠신부 (1966)
Character: Kim Geun-ho
It is the year of the white horse that arrives every sixty years. Three women avoid sleeping with their husbands so they won't conceive girls on the year of the horse. However, young and healthy husbands fall into great dilemma.
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대륙의 밀사 (1964)
Character: Wang-seong
During the Chinese-Japanese War (1937-1945) a nightclub dancer is given a dangerous mission by her dying brother. According to her brother's will, she goes on a journey with encoded papers of the Independence Army operations. She soon becomes a most wanted criminal by the Japanese Army and must cross the continent on her own.
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순간은 영원히 (1966)
Character: N/A
The Korean Intelligence Agency receives information that a huge amount of gold is being smuggled by North Korean spies, who has a secret organization in Hong Kong. To prevent this, Korea dispatches a secret agent to Hong Kong, who destroys their plan in advance and rounds up the mob.
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장군의 아들 3 (1992)
Character: N/A
Following the final events of General's Son 2, Kim Du-han is forced to go on the lam but eventually returns to Jongro where he attempts to rebuild his gang with the brothers that are still alive and loyal and defeat Hayashi's Yakuzas once and for all.
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장안명기 오백화 (1973)
Character: Un-il
A patriot Park No-Hun is dispatched by Shanghai Provisional Government for Independence to assassinate members of the House of Council. In this situation Young-Kuk, brother of Hyeon-Ju who is a kisaeng of Myeong Wol Kwan, is jailed and Choi Chil-Yong, an inspector of Japanese Higher Police Department, is in agony of difficulties between Korea and Japan. Shin Yun-Il, a member of the council falls in love with a kisaeng whose name is Jeong-Mi. All of these are going their way under the influence of phases of the times such as carrying out colonial policies and each of them is linked complicatedly and causes troubles. After all their efforts concentrated on Independence of Korea, and Park No-Hun carried out his mission with help of 5 kisaengs of Myeong Wol Kwan. Finally he leaves for Shanghai with them.
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장군의 수염 (1968)
Character: Kim Chul-hoon
The movie begins with the mysterious death of a journalistic photographer named Kim Cheol-hun. Veteran police detective Park (Kim Seung-ho) teams up with a young, intellectual detective (Kim Seong-ok) to investigate the people surrounding Kim.
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금욕 (1976)
Character: N/A
How big is the gap between friendship and love between women? Can one separate the moral principles of caring for another from the desire to possess that person? Can coerced heterosexuality compete with closet homosexuality? Ascetic, which has gained cult notoriety for its controversial focus on lesbian love, poses these questions and issues.
Middle-aged painter, Noh Mi-eh who had endured years of sadistic cruelty from her husband, finds solace in the young fashion model, Kim Young-hee, who is burdened with her own painful past of being gang raped by three men. Mi-eh’s job offer to Young-hee to pose for her painting has the younger woman living under Mi-eh’s roof. Like a mother or even a lover, Mi-eh takes care of Young-hee, doing all she can to help her younger roommate to be freed of her past demons. But when Young-hee falls in love with a man, the two women’s relationship and fate takes a drastic turn.
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산산이 부서진 이름이여 (1991)
Character: Jin-Gong
In a quite mountain temple Chim-hae follows a path of asceticism under the instruction of the High Priest, Pop-yon. One day, the high priest sends him on an errand to another mountain temple known as Sowondang. Sowondang was widely renowned for the beautiful Buddhist nun, Myo-hon who lived there. On Chi,-hae's way back he spots the delightful Myo-hon in the distance. From that moment he realizes her existence is overpowering to his. Days later, his craving is fulfilled when he gets to meet her in their mist at Sowondang. They are immediately attracted to each other in this wonderful first rendezvous. However, they foresee a grim future lying ahead. While returning to his temple, Chim-hae gets lost in the mist causing great concern and confusion among the other followers. Three days later Chim-hae awakes to find himself at home in the temple after having been rescued by the monk. Known as Mubul who had found him in the mountains.
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상해 임시정부 (1969)
Character: Shin il
The story deals with the life of Kim Gu, who dedicated his life for the good of his country and people.
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시발점 (1969)
Character: N/A
Sang-hun, a painter, and Yeong-hun, a doctor, are brothers. Sang-hun's girlfriend left him for another man, and he draws her portrait everyday. Yeong-hun, the older of the two, makes a medical mistake, and his young patient dies. Because of the guilty conscience, he abandons the career as a doctor and devotes himself to writing a novel. However, the brothers have high self-esteem and finally overcome their weaknesses to make a fresh start.
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여자가 숨는 숲 (1988)
Character: N/A
Dong-hoon, a CF director, decides to marry Su-hee, a young lady, with the introduction of Jun-seok, a neuropsychiatrist. Dong-hoon, whose women's relationship is complicated, reveals his last night with Ji-eun the day before marriage in the sense of ending all relationships. Su-hee, who saw Dong-hoon's naked body at first night, runs out of the bedroom in shock, but eventually Dong-hoon experiences a maiden from Su-hee and is moved. One day while living a happy honeymoon, Su-hee accidentally learns about the relationship between Dong-hoon and Ji-eun. Su-hee, who was agonizing, shivers the moment she sees the commercial made by Dong-hoon. After that, Su-hee, who goes out on the street, begins to seduce the men. Is it out of revenge for her husband's affair? She meets a swimming coach on the street and a zookeeper and burns a fantastic, wild zest.
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장남 (1984)
Character: Lee Tae-yeong
Forced to leave their home because of the construction of a new dam which will flood their village, the eldest son in the family prepares land and money to construct a new house in Seoul for his family. However, he shirks his duty shortly after and leaves overseeing the construction of the house to his younger brother while he goes to live seperately.
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역마 (1967)
Character: N/A
An old member of Namsadang (a wayfaring group of Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910)) leaves his daughter Gye-yeon at a tavern of Hwagye Market, a traditional market located in Gurye, Jeollanam-do. Son of the tavern owner Seong-gi and Gye-yeon love each other, but the madam owner tries to separate them by sending Seon-gi to a temple. The old man comes back to take Gye-yeon and disclose a secret that the tavern owner is in fact his daughter, therefore Seong-gi is his grand son. Frustrated to hear that he cannot love Gye-yeon, Seong-gi goes for a long journey without destination as his ancestors of Namsadang have done.
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겨울여자 (1977)
Character: Heo Min
Based on a serial novel by Cho Hae-il, "Winter Woman" deals with the sexual awakening of Yi-hwa, the daughter of a prosperous Christian preacher who has been raised to be morally and sexually conservative. The book and film earned the condemnation of conservative critics, however the author's leftist subtext went unchallenged overshadowed by the sexual themes. The film was the best selling Korean film of the 1970s and made a star of its female lead, Chang Mi-hee.
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가시를 삼킨 장미 (1979)
Character: N/A
College girl Jang-mi, has trouble coping after her break up with with Kyu-sik. She suffers from the relationship with her emotionally distant father and falls for a mid-aged man she encounters on a train. This she abandons because he's married, and wanders aimlessly into being a prostitute. Kyu-sik's harsh judgment when he finds out, leads to her overdose on sleeping pills. This results in her stay in a mental hospital where she may fall in love again. But can her dreams of married bliss happen, considering her past?
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반금련 (1981)
Character: N/A
Seo Mun-kyung, a merchant in ancient China where polygamy is legal, monopolizes the salt sales business. The magistrate of the province collapse families of Hwa Ja-heo and Hwang Mu-dae through Mun-kyung. When Ja-heo's wife Byung-ah fakes her death and disappears with Ja-heo, Seo is angered. But when he sees Mu-dae's wife Ban Geum-ryun, he is satisfied and this causes Mu-dae to end his own life. Geum-ryun makes Seo's concubines Chun-ae and Kyo-ah lose their sight and she takes Byung-ah to Seo. When Byung-ah has Seo's baby, antagonism and jealousy grows between the two women. Geum-ryun's jealousy kills Byung-ah's whole family and also kills Seo. Geum-ryun chooses to join her husband in death.
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망부석 (1963)
Character: Crown Prince Sado
His own father had hated Crown Prince Sado. The king finally orders to kill him by locking him up in a rice-chest. After his death, his wife Hong goes with her son to her parents' house to live there. Some high officials in the court constantly try to harm Sado's son because they don't want him to become king. But Hong's wisdom saved her son, who grows up to become the 22nd king of the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910).
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요화 장희빈 (1968)
Character: King Sukjong
King Sukjong assigns Jang Ok-nan, a court lady, as a concubine overnight. Jang plots to drive the current Queen into exile.
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상록수 (1961)
Character: Won-jae
Yeong-shin and Dong-hyuk graduate from college with a cause. They plan to bring education and modernization to farmers living in the rural area of their hometown. When they arrive, the pair immediately get to work, Dong-hyuk builds a village hall and starts aiding the farmers while Yeong-shin tries to gather the children to form a school. However, the villagers at first resent and resist the pair. It is not until one child, Ok-bun, takes the initiative and and learns to read under Yeong-shin’s care that the villages trust the pair and allow their children to be taken from the fields and taught reading, writing and math.
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길소뜸 (1986)
Character: Kim Dong-jin
A middle-aged woman in Busan searches for the son she lost in Gilsodom during the Korean War.
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예라이샹 (1966)
Character: N/A
A self-supporting student injured during the 4.19 Student Uprising gets help from an older woman, a madam at a nightclub. They fall in love with each other. Meanwhile, he becomes a private tutor for a rich family, and his student falls madly in love with him. To convince him to marry their daughter, the rich family throws a party and invites his girlfriend.
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젊은 느티나무 (1968)
Character: Hyungyu
Suk-hee's mother is remarried to a man who has a son a year senior than Suk-hee. The two don't get along well first, but soon they grow intimate. Suk-hee learns, though, that she needs to give up her love for her mother's happiness. One day she leaves her mother and her new family, and goes on her way to her hometown, where she sees a Zelkova tree.
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이 생명 다하도록 (1960)
Character: Park Sang-sa
Captain Kim is grievously wounded in the first days of the war. When the northern troops continue their advance, his wife and small daughters flee south to Taegu, dragging him along in a two-wheel handcart. His wife struggles to keep herself and their surviving daughter alive. Working as a market trader, she meets a kind young man -- who happens to be tall, dark and handsome.
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연산군 (장한사모편) (1961)
Character: Prince Jin-seong
A historical drama about Prince Yeon-san of Joseon as a prince trying to restore the status of his mother, the deposed and executed Queen Yun.
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원점 (1967)
Character: N/A
Crime ring leader Lee hires prostitute Seon to kill his subordinate Seok-gu who has threatened to take his place. Seon tempts Seok-gu to go to Mountain Seorak to assassinate him. But she falls in love with him in the journey and confesses everything to him. In fact, they have been shadowed by the spies Lee sent and bloody fight breaks out. Seok-gu in the end defeats all the villains.
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내시 (1968)
Character: Jung-ho
A nobleman sends his daughter to the king as a concubine in order to gain personal power and favors from the monarch. Her lover follows her into the palace disguised as a eunuch. They continue to meet in secret until discovered and sentenced to death.
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낮은 데로 임하소서 (1982)
Character: Ahn Shin-sam
Yo-han is the son of a Christian minister. Following his father's career, he joins the seminary without much enthusiasm, then drops out. After doing his military service as a KATUSA, he teaches at the U.S. educational center. When he is given a job teaching in America, he hastily marries in preparation for the move. He is suddenly struck blind, then begins contemplating suicide. Instead he has a religious vision and dedicates himself to the ministry, and opens a church for the blind.
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김약국의 딸들 (1963)
Character: Lee Tae-yoon
After an aggressive man lets his anger get the better of him, his wife takes her own life and he is forced to go on the run. The son he leaves behind grows up to have 4 daughters, but there is rumored to be a curse on his family. As the daughters find their way into relationships the curse seems to be true. Allegations of child murder, infidelity, forced into marriages with raging psychopaths.
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서울의 지붕 밑 (1961)
Character: Yeong-gil
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.
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휴일 (1968)
Character: Heo-wook
One Sunday, a penniless unmarried young South Korean couple meet, as they do every Sunday; while the pregnant young woman believes they are not ready to bring a child into the world, the young man decides to go visit his friends to borrow money for delivery.
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야관문: 욕망의 꽃 (2013)
Character: Jong-Sub
After the death of his wife, Jong-Sub (Kang Shin Sung Il) raised his son alone. He lost his son in a car accident. Since the death of his son, Jong-Sub lived all alone. He retired from his job as a principle. Jong-Sub is then diagnosed with colon cancer and learns he has only 6 months left to live. All his desire to live is gone, but he still wants to keep his dignity. Jong-Sub tries to hire a caregiver. A woman named Yeon-Hwa (Bae Seul-Ki) comes to him. She is beautiful, but looks sad. Watching Yeon-Hwa, Jong-Sub sees his dead wife. He is shaken by her and wants to live more with her. Jong-Sub realizes he loves her and faces a truth he can't believe.
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홍살문 (1972)
Character: Hyo-jin
In 1900, there lived two widows in a village : Mrs. Seo and her daughter-in-law Ok-Nyeo. Water carriers, new job in those days, decide not to deliver a bucket of water to Mrs. Seo because they don't like her. Ok-Nyeo is saved by Hyo-jin when she is almost raped by water carriers at night to get some water in secret. Sun they fall in love each other and Mrs. Seo gets angry with her daughter-in-law. But she sends them away to live together after she realizes their love is true. Then she devises a plot that her daughter-in-law committed suicide for honor of family and even held a funeral. Therefore two gates of woman are built in the widow's house.
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야행 (1977)
Character: Park Dae-ri
A bank employee dissatisfied with the casualness and secrecy of her relationship with her boyfriend, a superior at work, is suddenly given a few days of vacation.
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축제 (1996)
Character: Hae Kwang
While awaiting the publication of his fairytale about his dementia-stricken octogenarian mother, an acclaimed South Korean novelist receives news that she has passed away, so he leaves the city and returns to her village to take part in the funeral.
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둘째 어머니 (1972)
Character: Dong-o
Nam-Ok who has Yun-Ho and Yun-Suk remarries widowed Heung-Yeol who has Hyeong-Tae and Hyeong-Ja. Nam-Ok are concerned about frequent quarrels between half brothers and sisters, but manages to deal with them wisely. As Yun-Ho who went to fishing with him falls into the water, Heung-Yeol tries to save him only to drown himself to death. Fifteen years later, Hyeong-Tae goes abroad to study while Hyeong-Ja lives in extravagance in Seoul. Yun-Suk gets to know Dong-Oh on the train, and Dong-Ho gets to like her, but later misunderstands her due to Hyeong-Ja's scheme, which causes Yun-Suk to commit suicide.
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배신 (1964)
Character: Seong-Hoon
To prevent an investigation into a fraudulent bidding case, Woorim Engineering & Construction drives accounting manager Park Sun-dal to commit suicide under the condition that 30 million won be given to the bereaved families. Seong-Hoon (Shin Seong-Il), an employee at Woorim Construction who went to Busan to confirm Manager Park's suicide, meets a woman named Ji-Won (Eom Aing-Ran) on his way to Seoul. When Seong-hoon finds out that Ji-won is the mistress of Hong Man-seok (Jang Dong-hwi), the president of Woorim Engineering & Construction, who is also his benefactor, he tries to give up the relationship, but the more he tries, the deeper the relationship between them becomes. Knowing this, President Hong tries to separate the two, but eventually gives up due to their love that transcends death.
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초우 (1966)
Character: Cheol
Cheol, an auto mechanic, and Yeong-hui, a maid meet. Cheol lies and tells Yeong-hui that he is the son of a businessman. Cheol pretends to be the French ambassador's daughter. They meet only on rainy days.
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태풍 (2005)
Character: President
A vengeful refugee-turned-pirate steals nuclear materials to attack and obliterate the Koreas in a Nuclear Typhoon. A top South Korean naval officer is assigned the task to stop his plans and execute him.
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가을비 우산속에 (1979)
Character: N/A
Dong Won is a down-and-out artist who suffers from despair and dissatisfaction and suicidal tendencies. During a trip to Sorak mountain, he tries to kill himself. He falls in love with Sun Hee, the cabin owner's daughter. For a short time, he experiences true love. But they break up because of Sun Hee's mother. Dong Won becomes a fork crane driver but cannot escape his unhappiness. One day, he travels to Sorak mountain and meets Sun Hee and their son.
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나는 왕이다 (1966)
Character: Choi Yeong-cheol
Trainer Meng Doo-ho spots Young-chul in a bar fight and decides to turn him into a boxing champion.
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백사부인 (1960)
Character: Seon Heo
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.
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까치소리 (1967)
Character: N/A
Bong-su, who has been missing since the Korean War, returns to his hometown. A death notice for him has already been sent to his hometown, and his fiancée, Jeong-sun, has already married another man, Sang-ho. Bong-su tries to persuade Jeong-sun to forget about Sang-ho and return to him, but she tells him that it's something that cannot be undone. Tormented by his pain, Bong-su begins to show signs of delusional behavior and ends up strangling Jeong-im, Sang-ho's younger sister, who had a crush on him. Later, it is revealed that the death notice for Bong-su was a fake, created by Sang-ho so he could marry Jeong-sun.
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비 오는 날 수채화 (1990)
Character: Yang-boo
The story of Ji-su who life was torn by two women in his life. One of them is his step-sister and the other is a barroom dancer named Kyung-ja.
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안개 (1967)
Character: Yun Gi-jun
Yun Gi-jun has become the executive director of a pharmaceutical company by marrying the widowed daughter of the company CEO. With the general shareholders’ meeting coming up shortly, his wife suggests that he visit his hometown of Mujin and he takes her advice.
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해피 뉴 이어 (2021)
Character: Yong-jin's Father
A romantic comedy of a young man and woman that is told in the background of hotel 'Emross'. It has stories of people who met each other at Hotel Emross during the New Year holidays. Each one has his own memory to relate and create relationships or just going nostalgic.
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맨발의 청춘 (1964)
Character: Jo Doo-soo
Jo Doo-soo, a member of a gang, comes across and helps Joanna, a college student who is about to have her handbag robbed by the bullies on her way home. Joanna is a diplomat's daughter and living the life of the upper class; whereas, Jo Doo-soo wastes his days serving the gang. Attracted to one another because of their opposite lives, Doo-soo and Joanna quickly fall in love. Being a devout Christian, Joanna believes that if only Doo-soo changed his thoughts about the way he lives, he could be a new person...
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별들의 고향 (1974)
Character: Moon-ho
A man and a woman fall for one another, but she is haunted by her troubled history with men.
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