Kim Yae-eun
Yeon-ju is an assistant director who has been trying to be a writer-director for ten years. After being turned down her last script and assigned an unwanted side job in her home town by an executive, she seriously considers quitting all. To make things worse, her mother gets sick. She got stuck in an unwanted circumstance. But strange enough, the unwanted side job gives her a glimpse of hope. The project is about the last Kie-sang (the feudal age courtesan) San-ok, who was the most excellent artist. Somehow Yeon-ju feels connected with her. At the verge of giving up her dream and life altogether, Yeon-ju starts to write a new script with the help of San-ok in her fantasy.
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.
Miso lives from day to day by housekeeping. Cigarettes and whiskey are the two things that get her through the day. When the government doubles the price of cigarettes, Miso decides to give up her house for cigarettes and whiskey and make a list of her friends to ask a favor to stay with.
On a winter day, when a tiger escapes from the zoo, a man is kicked out of his girlfriend’s house. Having no place to go, he wanders from here to there while working as a substitute driver and meets his old girlfriend. Can they start again?
Sun-mi works at a reception desk of a public institution in Daegu, Korea. Nothing happens to her, and she has the same lunch every day. One day, a message is sent to her. This little incident in her ordinary life stimulates her curiosity. Saturday morning, a film director Ga-young participates into a Q&A section of her new movie entitled The Murder at Cinema. Eun-jung, a foreman in a production line, tries to find Min-cheol who disappeared with the book of accounts. She meets his acquaintances to ask where they saw him, and finally she heads to the cinema where she heard that he often visits.
A story of a mother who goes through emotional turmoil after discovering a long-kept secret about her son.
Lin, a migrant female worker from Cambodia, and Yeon-hee, a Korean, are friends who work together at a factory at night. One day, the two will go to the sea together for the weekend. However, the factory manager only forces Lin to work overtime on the weekend, while Lin finds out that Yeon-hee is leaving Korea for Australia soon.
Wan-ju, a failed stage actor, makes ends meet by playing “real-life” parts as someone’s boyfriend or wingman. Desperate for money, Wan-ju takes on his most challenging “role” ever when he agrees to pretend to have witnessed a murder.
Having run a video rental shop alone, the woman ought to fold up her shop before long. When she finds the video tape related to ex-boyfriend, she decides to contact him on the pretext of getting back a video tape in arrears. Waiting him, she packs her stuff in her shop.
Hyeong-seo is Hyun-ji's groom-to-be. He quarrels with the issues related to marriage preparations and raises voice. Seol-won who was Hyun-ji's ex-boyfriend get angry to find him badly treating her.
