Shin Su-won
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.
South Korean anthology series featuring one-act dramas selected from the O'PEN Drama Storyteller Exhibition.
Despite her disabled leg, the Ph.D. student Jae-yeon is a brilliant researcher with a rare ability to communicate with nature. Having been hurt by her hypocrite colleague and lover, she turns her back to the world and goes deep into the forest to live alone in a glass garden.
Hye-rim, a 35-year-old woman, finds a job at a hospital as a caregiver assigned to a quadriplegic VIP patient who practically owns the hospital. For the past 10 years, the VIP patient’s son Sang-woo has been desperately keeping him alive for money, ordering the doctors to perform several heart transplants despite recurrent heart failures. In need of another one, Sang-woo takes a brain dead unidentified woman as a donor and asks Hye-rim to look into her background. She discovers that the woman was once a prostitute known as ‘Madonna’ who has experienced a lifetime of abuse, and that she is pregnant. In an attempt to save Madonna’s unborn child, Hye-rim goes against Sang-woo’s orders and searches for the baby’s father.
An omnibus of four films by Korean directors exploring the meaning of family
A desperate, lonely man and a homeless woman with a baby cross paths in this offbeat slice of life piece.
is a story about elite high school seniors, the top 1%, who are prepared to go to extremes to get into prestigious universities. A student who has ranked number one at an esteemed school dies in a remote mountain. Finding out why and the ultimate impact of his death make up the bulk of this thriller’s elaborate narrative, whose shocking conclusion could lead us to comment, “We’ve seen a devil.” Despite a structure that freely weaves together past and present, and a cast of appealing actors including Lee David, Gung Jun and Kim Kkot-bi, the most remarkable thing about the film is the theme itself. It touches on and raises the critical issue of the demands of Korea’s education system, which are becoming more extreme and competitive by the day.
Yu-nan, who took a role of a drummer in director Shin’s debut film, is preparing a solo album. Shin gives her a camcorder used in her film Passerby #3 and asks her to take a selfie. One day the camcorder that Shin lent to Do-yeon arrives. In the box, there was a documentary of her daughter she shot. Shin wonders who were the first woman to hold a movie camera in Korea.
Retired mob boss Du-heon enrolls in a cooking class with the hopes of making a fresh start as a restaurant owner. In the class he meets a quirky girl, Se-bin, and finds himself drawn to her. Despite his determination to wipe the slate clean, Du-heon is summoned back into the criminal fold by his old colleagues.
Jiwan is thirty + housekeeper and director. She lives with a teenager son, Siyong and her husband, Sang Woo. She has been prepared her first feature film in a film company, but it does not go well. One day, she tired to write scenarios, the cursor changes to the ants occasionally fantasize, so she stoped to write scenarios. After a few months, she saw the rainbow reflected in a puddle, she start to new works and she go to new film company. One day, she encounters an empty stage, and saw fantastic rainbow scene and heard the Fantasia, and picks up abandoned music score. Since she writes to a new scenario, the title of 'Rainbow'. But it is non-commercial, and is rejected. As time goes by, she is tired out because of repeated operations.
