가리봉동에 위치한 만화방이란 공간을 축으로 만화방 여주인과 그곳에 드나드는 여러 유형의 인간들, 예를 들면 시장사람들, 다방 레지, 깡패, 경찰의 눈을 피해야하는 지식인 등의 굴절된 삶을 통해 80년대의 슬픔을 간접적으로 이야기하고 있다.
Jeom-rye works as a sharecropper to make a living for her good-for-nothing husband and her son Yong. But the village men are always trying to seduce her. When she rebuffs her landlord's advances, she is wrongly accused by his wife and is forced to leave. Sam-su, the servant who is smitten with her, offers to lend her husband, Deok-hi, money for her affections. Deok-hi tries to sell her off to Sam-su but Jeom-rye gets him arrested for trafficking humans. Sam-su realizes Jeom-rye's sincerity and drops the charges and Deok-hi repents his ways only too late. He dies of an illness. When her son Yong dies from indigestion after eating rice cakes, she goes off the edge.
A man is paid to seduce the wife of a powerful stockbroker but realizes that he is being set up for a murder charge.
The story of three women of three countries, who are deserted and killed by men, and whose spirits, in turn, take revenge on the wicked men.
경기도청 총력1과에 근무하는 일본인 청년 다니는 총독부의 명령에 따라 창씨개명 작업을 수임한다. 다니가 찾은 곳은 설씨 집안이 모여사는 곳으로 종손 설진영은 완강하고 강직한 조선인이었다. 다니는 설진영의 인간성과 그의 딸 옥순의 아름다움에 끌리고 조선인의 족보를 지키려는 정신에 감동, 갈등을 겪는다. 설진영의 창씨개명 거부는 딸의 약혼자를 경찰에 끌려가게 하여 파혼당하게 하는가 하면 다른 가족에게까지 배척을 받게 된다. 그는 급기야 면사무소에 나가 가족 모두의 창씨개명을 서명하기에 이르른다. 그러나 끝내 자신만은 '설진영' 그대로 둔 채 돌아와 족보 마지막장에 사유를 쓰고 자결한다.
Ingeol and Ki-seong are masters of taekwondo and are bamboo shoots, but they parted ways to spread the traditional martial art, Taekwon, to the whole country. Upon arriving at Ganghwa Island, Ingeol discovers a group of suspicious people and tracks them. Meanwhile, Ki-seong, who had been traveling the country separately, heard the news and ran to Ganghwa Island, and together with In-geol's younger sister, Non-smoking, smacked the Ming merchants and Hyuk-soo gang to protect the gold.
A man who left his wife to study for a government exam happens to see a drowning woman in a mountain and rescues her. To thank him she takes him home deep in the mountain. He ends up staying with her for years, putting his study behind. But she learns that the woman he saved from the drowning sea was a vampire. Meanwhile his wife finds where her husband is with the Buddha's revelation, kills the vampire and brings him back safely to their home.
