Seol-bong Ko

Prior to the adoption of Confucianism, it was the tradition to abandon one's parents on a mountainside if they were over 70 years of age. In the ancient kingdom of Goryeo, now modern Korea, a nobleman defies this tradition when he refuses to leave his mother to starve to death.

A Korean man, forced into service in the Japanese army during WWII, marries his Japanese girlfriend despite everyone's objections. Later, he becomes the sole survivor when the Americans attack.

Considerado o melhor filme da história do cinema coreano por parte da crítica especializada em cinema asiático, “Obaltan” retrata uma Coréia econômica e moralmente arrasada pela guerra. O filme narra as desventuras de uma família de irmãos órfãos de pai que vivem em um lugar em ruínas com uma mãe completamente louca. Um dos irmãos é um homem tímido e responsável cujo salário mal dá para sustentar sua família que também inclui sua esposa grávida e filha. Outro irmão é um ex-militar com ferimentos de guerra que endureceram sua alma. Entre esses dois personagens antagônicos está uma irmã que é arrastada para a prostituição depois de ser rejeitada por seu antigo namorado. E há o irmão mais novo, desencantado com a miséria à sua volta e que vai ajudar as finanças da família como vendedor de jornais.

Heo Seung, who states that he was “born from soil, will live in soil, and die in soil”, becomes a lawyer in Seoul. However when villagers in his hometown are imprisoned for protesting against Japanese oppression, he decides to return to his village and rediscovers the true way to help his country.

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.

A housemaid becomes pregnant by her employer's husband and she flees to the countryside to raise her daughter on her own.

On the eighth of April of King Gyoeng-deok's 10th year of the reign of the Unified Silla Period, Guseulagi, a daughter of Yu Jong, joins the king's parade to Bulguksa Temple, where she meets a stonemason named Asadal from Buyeo. Having a crush on him, she visits Sakyamuni Pagoda, a masonic site; only to find that Asadal had broken down from exhaustion. While she takes care of him, her love for him grows. But Asadal misses his wife who is waiting for him in Buyeo. Meanwhile, Geum Seong who has a crush on Guseulagi, asks his father, Geum Ji, to propose on behalf of him. But Yu Jong is so dissatisfied with Geum Ji because he is a treacherous subject, that he turns down the proposal, instead of hurrying up his daughter's marriage with Gyeongsin, a faithful subject. Asanyeo who has been waiting for her husband Asadal in Buyeo goes to Bulguksa Temple after her father-in-law had died.

A historical melodrama about a love triangle within a group of bandits.

The film is a historical melodrama about a high government official who wants to marry a woman who is engaged to marry another man.

A young Buddhist monk, Jo Sin, is attracted to Tae-su's daughter, Dal-lye. He hopes to marry her, but she becomes Mo-rye Hwa-rang's wife. One day she secretly leaves the temple and runs away with Jo Sin. Hwa-rang finds out about it and is ready to take revenge on him. Jo Sin shouts out loud and realizes that he had just had a dream.