Jeong Ha-dam
Eunhye starts a new business called ‘Sharon’s Cup-Bap’ but those in the neighborhood do not welcome her. The part-timer who is a North Korean defector keeps turning off Eunhye’s light music and puts on into ‘trot’ music. Eunhye reaches the end of her patience and unplugs the speaker.
One night in Seoul, Jin meets Tae who works in an LP bar. Both become trapped in a rapidly changing world and weighed down by work. But they still have fond memories of each other. Perhaps, memories are all they have left of each other.
During Japanese colonial rule, YU Gwan-sun is imprisoned for starting the March 1 Movement, a peaceful protest for Korea’s independence. Undaunted, YU unites her fellow inmates to resist Japan. The Japanese security chief senses the resistance, entices an inmate to find out YU Gwan-sun is behind it, then tortures her. Later, Gwan-sun pretends to obey the Japanese while secretly planning another independence protest. This movement spreads beyond prison to the streets, and YU is subjected to merciless torture again. Though she dies two days before she is set to be released, her spirit is more liberated and free than ever.
A young man works at the bond collection call center. He is polite, pure and sincere at a glance. On the other hand, the director of the center is not called to the head office, so he is antsy every day. And she has a daughter who is having a hard time preparing for a job.
“I want to be a great tempter in my next life. I’ll love with half my heart and never suffer the despair of being abandoned.” People naturally want to be the seducer when it comes to relationships. However, once you go through a torrid relationship, you realize the folly of your youthful aspirations about love. “Tempted” is about dangerous relationships young men and women jump into without realizing they are giving up their lives, and the risks and beauty of romance in their twenties. Based on 18th century French novel "Les Liaisons dangereuses" by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos.
A girl of about ten carries a little suitcase when arriving at an intercity bus terminal. She was abandoned by her mother a week ago. Not knowing what to do and why her mother left her, she decides to find a man who might be her father and who she has never met before.
Each night, a homeless girl stays in abandoned houses to get by. In the winter, she leaves the cold environs of Seoul and heads to Busan, eventually finding an empty house in an abandoned part of town. She starts looking for a way to make a living, but it’s difficult to find a job with no home address, no ID card, and no phone number. She ultimately does find work, but her employer takes advantage of her and ends up firing her without paying any wages. No one seems to be on her side in this harsh and abusive world.
1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation, a young woman is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress who lives a secluded life on a large countryside estate with her domineering uncle. But, the maid has a secret: she is a pickpocket recruited by a swindler posing as a Japanese count to help him seduce the heiress to elope with him, rob her of her fortune, and lock her up in a madhouse. The plan seems to proceed according to plan until the women discover some unexpected emotions.
Set in the late 1920s, The Age of Shadows follows the cat-and-mouse game that unfolds between a group of resistance fighters trying to bring in explosives from Shanghai to destroy key Japanese facilities in Seoul, and Japanese agents trying to stop them.
The life of runaway girls is exposed to the threats of prostitution or violent situations during the quest to find a place to stay overnight like Eunsoo and Soohyang.
