Shaman
La vida de una joven pareja da un vuelco cuando el marido camina sonámbulo y se convierte en otra persona al anochecer. Su esposa, abrumada por el temor de que le haga daño a su bebé recién nacido, ya no puede dormir.
As a man fails to repay his loans, his daughter is taken by another man hired by the loan shark. She is told he will take her to her aunt. But he plans to sell the daughter to a brothel. She knows this and seems to have accepted this as her fate. A good-natured man appears accompanies them suddenly without their consent. They take route 1 and ride on.
Hochul and Youngran, the owners of two cafes, fall in love with each other and plan to live together. However, they must wait for the time being because of the remaining real estate contracts. One day, they have a small car accident. In order to keep it quiet, they decide to take care of the young man involved, named Suk about whom they know nothing.
Yunhwa, who works at a shipyard to manage their livelihood after her husband′s accident, receives a notice of unfair dismissal. To make matters worse, their relatives suddenly come and try to take away the family land. Her son loses a large sum of money with Bitcoin, and her daughter dreams of escaping to Seoul while giving up her studies.
Juhee, a professor of theater, is diagnosed with a possible malignant tumor at the hospital. She goes back to school and tries to settle her affairs but many people come to her lab out of the blue.
Woman
Part I : A middle-aged woman gets off a bus at Muju Terminal. She passes through the town and walks into a forest. She starts to search for the vestiges of her life from beyond the grave. Part II : A young woman, Minjae, returns to her hometown of Muju and starts to work at the county office. Her mother is displeased that her daughter has returned to the hometown. One day, Minjae’s friend from college, Kyungyoon, who hadn’t been in touch for a while, comes to see her.
Ms. Park
Sang-hyeon es dueño de una lavandería y voluntario en la iglesia cercana, donde trabaja su amigo Dong-soo. Los dos manejan un negocio ilegal juntos: Sang-hyeon ocasionalmente roba bebés de la caja de bebés de la iglesia con la ayuda de Dong-soo, quien borra las imágenes de CCTV de la iglesia que muestran que dejaron un bebé allí, y los venden en el mercado negro de adopción. . Pero cuando una joven madre, So-young, regresa después de haber abandonado a su bebé, los descubre y decide irse con ellos en un viaje por carretera para entrevistar a los posibles padres infértiles del bebé. Mientras tanto, dos detectives, Soo-jin y el detective Lee, les siguen la pista.
Jeong-sun
Jeong-sun as her name lives an uncluttered life with modest behavior even though working at a food factory. Young-soo, a factory colleague, approaches her. As they get closer, they enjoy their secret relationship, and he takes candid shots in beds with his mobile camera. One day, she gets inappropriate stares from others.
Chunhee, who is left alone after her parents died right after IMF crisis, has been living in her mother’s childhood house ever since then. She makes a living by peeling garlics, and saves some money for the treatment for hyperhidrosis. Everything was fine until she got struck by lightning. When she comes around and gets home, she encounters herself waiting for her, to be specific, her younger self.
Nothing seems to work out for Cha Jicheon. One day, he goes to a convenient store in a drunken state, and purchases a ‘buy one get one free’ deal. The next morning, there’s a naked man in his room who looks just like him. Jicheon leaves his alter ego at home, and takes his girlfriend on their first holiday together. Now, Jicheon’s family spends a night with his alter ego… “I wish there were another me.”
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Soliloquy
Chang-seok's marriage failed. He left his wife and came back to South Korea. He is about to publish a novel based on his own experience. He meets various people, including Mi-young, Yoo-jin, Sung-ha and Ju-eun. Upon meeting these people, Chang-seok changes his mind and starts weaving yet another story.
Hyun-nam
Una historia que describe los momentos más brillantes de Josee y Young Seok. Josee tiene una discapacidad física y vive en su propio mundo, Young Seok entra en su mundo.
Nurse
Mira in her late 40's has been living in Paris for around 20 years. Having just divorced her French husband, she decides to visit Korea, and meets her old friends Young-eun and Sung-woo. While having a cheerful time in the bar, Mira goes to the toilet and after she returns, time is reversed back to 19 years ago. It is the day of Mira’s farewell party, before she left to France.
Jisook works as an instructor at Smile Club, a laughter therapy program at an insurance company. She stresses the importance of laughter, and seems cheerful all the time. Yet, in reality, she finds life tough and exhausting. Then one day, life gets even more complicated when her son Jaeho uses violence against his classmate Donghyun – who happens to be the son of Heesoo, the leader of Smile Club. Since Heesoo is an important client, the incident puts Jisook in a rather difficult position.
Aunt
Kim Ji Young es una mujer coreana común. Ella enfrenta discriminación en el hogar, la escuela y el trabajo debido a su género.
Hae-ryeon
A TV producer from a broadcasting station in Yanji, China visits so-called Chinatown of Seoul, Daerim-dong, to interview a Chinese Korea family. The producer spends a day with them while shooting their daily lives.
A family who are uncomfortable together, but worry about each other goes on a sudden camping trip. A group of youths who have no idea about their future and live crumpled lives go on a trip. A single person who thinks it's alright to be alone goes on a trip as well.
hairdresser
Jeong-eun is embarrassed that her mother, who is suffering from dementia, wants to meet and call her sister from who was separated with due to the Korean War. However, Jeongeun accidentally receives a wrong call from a North Korean woman and is asked a favor.
hairdresser (segment 3)
In this Korean omnibus film, three stories and relationships between the North and South are explored - stories about a hopeless romance, an unknown future and an expected and coincidental comfort.
Ja-ok
Ja-ok, a middle-aged woman who works part-time at a pub, finds out that she is pregnant one day. She has mixed feelings about being a first-time mom.
Jecheon Shaman
Pastor Park trabaja para exponer grupos religiosos sospechosos. Él es contratado para mirar en el grupo de culto Deer Mount. Mientras tanto, el Capitán de la Policía Hwang investiga un caso de asesinato y el principal sospechoso es un miembro del culto de Deer Mount.
Inn owner
Park Jae-sang, un geomántico real, ayuda a la gente a designar un sitio propicio para casas, tiendas e incluso tumbas bajo la creencia de que una tumba en un buen sitio traerá futura fortuna para los descendientes. Este perderá a su familia al exponer una conspiración sobre la tumba del Príncipe Heredero, pero planeará venganza, aunque esto le hará darse cuenta de que hay una conspiración mucho más grande detrás.
Mother
In addition to the burden of caring for her mother whose mental condition is deteriorating, Hyo-jeong feels oppressed by the sheer weight of life itself. She finally decides to send her mother, who now has full blown dementia, to a mental health care facility.
Super
Yong-soon is an 18-year-old high school student. She falls in love with her gym teacher, but she thinks her teacher might have a girlfriend. Yong-Soon and her friends try to find out whether he does have a girlfriend, but they can't find any clues. Making things worse, her father brings a new stepmother from Mongolia.
Hyo-seon
Hyo-seon is diagnosed early menopause, and his son Jinsu calls for a MacBook. One old cow that would be the money in the house.
Mokpo prosecutor's wife
Nacido en una familia pobre, Tae-su descubre que el poder es lo más importante en la vida y decide convertirse en fiscal, el mayor símbolo del poder en los años 90. Después de ingresar a la escuela de derecho más prestigiosa, experimentando resistencia democrática en Corea, Tae-su finalmente alcanza su objetivo de convertirse en fiscal, pero su vida no es mejor que la de un asalariado. Por casualidad, se une a una camarilla de los poderosos fiscales con riqueza y autoridad. Finalmente tiene una probada de una vida de jerarquía superior, pero como disfruta de la dulzura de la supremacía, también ve el lado cruel de ella.
Villager
Jae-Hyeok es un empleado de una deteriorada planta de energía nuclear en Corea que avisa al gobierno sobre las malas condiciones de su lugar de trabajo, aunque nadie le escucha. Un día, la planta se ve sacudida por un terremoto y causa numerosas explosiones. Con la ciudad en estado de pánico, Jae-Hyeok, en vez de huir con su familia, vuelve a la planta nuclear para evitar que todo el país vuele por los aires.
Survivor
Un virus letal se expande por Corea del Sur, provocando violentos altercados. Los pasajeros de un tren KTX que viaja de Seúl a Busan tendrán que luchar por su supervivencia.
mother
On the morning of her first day at a new school, a girl practices different ways to greet her teacher in order to make a good impression. A bundle of nerves, she heads off to school, and, contrary to her expectations, is met with indifference by the teacher.
Cashier 10
Varias empleadas de un hipermercado coreano son súbitamente marginadas por la gerencia. En un mundo en el que el cliente siempre tiene razón y los empleados son serviles, esta mujeres harán lo inesperado: contraatacar. Mujeres en la calle luchando por sus derechos.
Prisoner 1
Kum-ja es una joven que ha pasado trece años en prisión acusada del secuestro y el asesinato de un niño de 6 años. Un crimen que conmocionó a la opinión pública, tanto por la brutalidad del mismo como por los veinte años con los que contaba entonces la acusada. Cumplida su pena, Geum-ja sólo tiene una cosa en mente: venganza... Última parte de la trilogía de la venganza de Chan-wook Park, tras "Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance" y "Oldboy".