Hwang Suk-jung

19-year-old Yoon Young lives alone with her mother and prepares for the civil service exam while working part-time. Regardless of good heart and sincere will, unexpected incidents turn Yoon Young from a victim to the killer, driving her to prison and being called inmate "2037" instead of "Yoon Young." In a hopeless situation her co-inmates in Cell No. 12 with their own stories offer a hand of hope to protect Yoon Young...

On March 7, 1997, after losing the election, former lawmakers who were engaged in hiking and fishing opened a restaurant called Harodongseon. Rumors spread that the restaurant was opened by politicians, and it is crowded with customers every day, but they realize that the business is not very easy. This is because various people, including a suspicious-looking monk, a man who looks like a spy, a big autistic child who resembles Ureme, and fussy Gangnam nouveau riche have begun to cross the threshold of the restaurant.

One holiday, the eldest daughter-in-law who picked up the keys to the van, escapes with her daughters-in-law one by one without her husband knowing.

An older brother is a washed-up boxer. His younger brother is a genius pianist with physical disability. The brothers make up through their mother who is full of stories of her past.

獣医のビョンスはアルツハイマーで元連続殺人鬼という顔を持ち、日々の出来事を“録音”することを習慣に過ごしていた。ある日、接触事故を起こし謎の男テジュに出会う。その目つきに彼もまた殺人犯だと確信し、警察に通報するがまともに取りあってもらえない。やがてテジュはビョンスの愛娘ウンヒの彼として目の前に現れる。ビョンスは1人でテジュを捕らえようとするが、アルツハイマーにより記憶は途切れ混乱していく。そうしてまた始まった連続殺人事件…。これはヤツの仕業なのか？

平和な田舎の村に、得体の知れないよそ者がやってくる。この男についての謎めいた噂が広がるにつれて、村人が自身の家族を残虐に殺す事件が多発していく。そして必ず殺人を犯した村人は、濁った眼に湿疹で爛れた肌をして、言葉を発することもできない状態で現場にいるのだ。事件を担当する村の警官ジョングは、ある日自分の娘に、殺人犯たちと同じ湿疹があることに気付く。ジョングは娘を救うためによそ者を追い詰めていくが、そのことで村は混乱の渦となっていき、誰も想像できない結末へと走り出す――。

On a live music radio show, a letter arrives from the 23 years in the past. Through the letter, the first love and friendships of five friends are revealed.

When his wife is murdered, Dong-ho loses the light in his life, breaks down and falls into depression. But he knows that as long as the killer is still around, he can not get out of his loss. Then, one day, he receives a call and can not believe who he is listening to.

「群盗」のカン・ドンウォンと「僕の、世界の中心は、君だ。」のソン・ヘギョの共演で贈るヒューマン・ドラマ。若くして子どもを授かった夫婦と、早老症という難病を抱えて生まれた息子の絆の物語を描く。監督は「多細胞少女」のイ・ジェヨン。テコンドーの選手として将来を嘱望されていたデスと、アイドルを夢みていたミラが恋に落ち、17歳という若さで妊娠する。学校も夢も捨て、家族の反対を乗り越え結婚した2人。しかし、生まれてきた息子アルムは、普通の人の何倍もの速さで成長老化してしまう先天性の難病早老症を患っていた。それでもデスとミラは深い愛情でアルムを育て、明るく幸せな家庭を築いていく。やがて16歳になったアルムの身体年齢は80歳を超えてしまうが...。

Jin-Yeong gets Kimchi by courier from her mother. Her older sister Jin-sook who lives with her mother gives Jin-Yeong a complexion with kimchi. Jin-Yeong is not comfortable with this relationship. Then one day, Jin-yeong goes to visit her mother's house in the country with her husband after hearing about her mother's car accident. Jin-Sook secretly scratches Jin-Yeong and eventually explodes.

After two years of casual sex, a pair of emotionally repressed lovers abruptly part ways. But as they start new lives, memories of the past remain.

Kyungcheon is a pianist-in-training who loses his heart and becomes a milk cow. He lives as a man during the day, but becomes a milk cow at night and eats grass. Meanwhile, with the help of wizard Merlin, a satellite named Ilho fell from the cosmos by a supernova, is transformed into a girl. One day, Kyungcheon is attacked by members of a secret agency that chases people who lost their heart. Kyungcheon defeats them with the help of Ilho. Following a narrow escape from secret agents, the two mismatched characters come to know about each other’s secrets and draw close.

A North Korean refugee named Yoon-hee works hard to bring her daughter who is left alone in China but one day crashes with a handicapped person with her milk delivery bike. The disabled refuses to go to the hospital but sues her as a hit-and-run and this gets spread all over the Internet. She is criticized by netizens and gets fired from all of her jobs. It turns out that the man who sued her is a self-injuring blackmailer disguised as a disabled person. Yoon-hee learns that she's going to need alot of money to win the case and to bring her daughter. She tries to make money through surrogacy but she ends up not getting paid. Being accused falsely, Yoon-hee doesn't trust the lawyer she has who only thinks about the cost and decides to stand up for herself

ダム建設によって水没予定地となった村に、粗暴なトラブルメーカーのミンチョルが久しぶりに帰ってくる。ところがミンチョルの妻子を含む村人たちは皆、彼の不在中に建てられた教会に通い、若きカリスマ牧師のソンを崇めていた。それがインチキ教団を率いる詐欺師ギョンソクの陰謀だと察知したミンチョルだったが、村人も警察もミンチョルの言い分にまったく耳を傾けず、”悪魔に憑りつかれた男”の烙印をおされてしまう・・・。

An omnibus of four films by Korean directors exploring the meaning of family

A contract killer becomes disenchanted with his line of work and spares the lives of his two latest would-be-victims. But the assassination company he works for has no intentions of letting him quit.

Oh Dong-sik is the completely rigid character who has always led a text-book life. Dong-sik is threatened by loan sharks when his mother signs up for a private loan in order to advance Dong-sik’s father’s promotion into the principal position. Dong-sik decides to become the best insurance seller in his newly transferred insurance sales team, but sales is a major challenge for the completely tactless and obstinate Dong-sik. Then one day, Dong-sik has a chance encounter with Hyugosoo, the legendary ‘master of tongue’ of insurance sales industry. Hyugosoo bends his rules and accepts Dong-sik as his pupil, and Dong-sik begins to learn Hyugosoo’s secrets of flattery after a great struggle. Will his teachings indeed reinvent Dong-sik into ‘Mr. Ass-Kisser’?

A Korean man in China takes an assassination job in South Korea to make money and find his missing wife. But when the job is botched, he is forced to go on the run from the police and the gangsters who paid him.

In May 5th, 1991 when the 10th murder case of Hwaseong serial killing occurred, a girl goes missing in Hwaseong (homophone of Mars in Korean). Then there is Chun-hee in Seoul, 2009, living with the eyes of the missing girl. With some help (?) from her father Chun-hee‘s corneas were donated to her in 1991. Yet corneas donation must happen postmortem, a gift coming from somebody’s death. Today Chun-hee works at a real estate agency, showing houses and lands for development. One day she is given the task of introducing lands in Hwaseong, a misfortunate place of past but being developed into a high-tech industrial city now. Then she finally sets foot there in Hwaseong.

Kwon Yeon-woo is a thirty year old low-level civil servant who works in a district office; quite innocent for his age, he has been on numerous blind dates in an unsuccessful bid to find a wife. After moving into a new place, he begins to encounter a high school girl, Soo-yeong, on his way to work every morning, and she begins to develop feelings for him. Meanwhile, Kang Sook has just started working at the district office straight out of high school, and falls head over heels for older woman Kwon Ha-kyeong.

A tragic love story is about deal with the devil. Dong-a is a boy who is longing for eternal love. Yu-rie is a call girl whose name comes from an alaska native. Donga works at the Heaven gas station, across from the Papa motel where Yu-rie works as a call girl. Donga loves Yu-rie so passionately, that he sells his soul to the Devil in return for 10 years of love with Yu-rie. When the devil returns at the end of ten years to claim Donga’s soul, Donga decides to kill the devil.

"Crazy Waiting" follows four different couples as they deal with the separation caused by the men serving their mandatory military duties.

While eating skewered tempura at a street vendor, young reporter Choi Soo-jin accidentally sticks the skewer into the side of a detective, Kang Jae-hyuk, who was chasing a suspected criminal. After this encounter, Soo-jin is told to work on a story about a detective, and the detective turns out to be Jae-hyuk. Soo-jin joins his crackdown on drug dealers, and the two start to fall in love.

A miserly father and his clever yet immature son live emotionally impoverished lives together. That life is interrupted when a beautiful widow moves in as a tenant. A battle between father and son to win the widow’s heart begins. No concession, No scruples, No rules.

Desperate to discover who framed him for murder, criminal Su-hyun escapes from police custody and crosses path with cop Sung-woo. After realizing they have a mutual enemy, the two form an unlikely alliance and together go looking for payback.

Woo-jae and Yeon-soo had been platonic friends for years when they went their separate ways. Now, ten years later, they bump into each other again and are forced to re-think things. Will they have the courage to risk their friendship for love?

Park Pil-gi’s family has never owned a house for three generations. They have to live in a rented room all their lives. Quite understandably, his father’s will at his death bed was ‘get your own house,’ which became Pil-gi’s goal in life. He works at a shipyard by day and as part-time chauffeur by night. After 10 years he finally manages to buy a two-storey house near the beach in Geoje-do, with some loans and mortgage. On the day he moves in, he shouts “Father… I did it! I bought my own house!” But his joy soon turns to fear. A knife flies toward him, the actor on TV suddenly shouts at him to leave the house, and even crawls out of the screen.…

In order to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Korean Film Academy, 20 of the academy's former students (who are respected director's today) were invited to shoot an omnibus movie consisting of 20 short films. Overall this work was very well received by the critiques at the 17th Tokyo International Film Festival. Films include Under a Big Tree, Sutda, Twenty Millimeter Thick, Innocence, *?!#@$ Up Shoes, Twenty Questions, The Twenty's Law, To the 21st, Pass Me and Alone Together.

A Korean mobster's bumbling assistants team up with a street-smart hooker to find their employer's missing drug money.

The fashionable Hye-joo is focused on her career at a brokerage house. She's making a decent living, but her co-workers look down on her. Tae-hee is sick of living under the thumb of her domineering father. She spends her time doing volunteer work for a poet with cerebral palsy. Sullen Ji-young lives in poverty with her grandparents and struggles to find work. The girls, close friends in high school, find themselves drifting apart as their adult lives begin to take shape.