Lee Man-hee
One of the most important Korean filmmakers in the 1960s and 70s, LEE Man-hee established his reputation as a master of genre cinema, at a time the industry had yet to embrace horrors and thrillers, which have since become staples of the local film scene.
Sampoganeun kil
Passing through a jail and a construction site, a young laborer meets a middle-aged man returning to Sampo after ten years' absence. Together, they track down a young woman who ran away from the restaurant she was waitressing at, but instead of turning her in for a reward, the trio decide to go on an adventure together.
1950nyeon 4shi
A look at the incidents of June 25, 1950 which marked the beginning of the Korean War and which found the South to be woefully unprepared.
Hyuil
One Sunday, a penniless unmarried young South Korean couple meet, as they do every Sunday; while the pregnant young woman believes they are not ready to bring a child into the world, the young man decides to go visit his friends to borrow money for delivery.
Wonjeom
Crime ring leader Lee hires prostitute Seon to kill his subordinate Seok-gu who has threatened to take his place. Seon tempts Seok-gu to go to Mountain Seorak to assassinate him. But she falls in love with him in the journey and confesses everything to him. In fact, they have been shadowed by the spies Lee sent and bloody fight breaks out.
Gwilo
A writer who was disabled during the Korean War is now contributing a serial to a newspaper. His wife, who once adored him, is tempted by a young man she happens to know. But he overlooks her affair thanking her for her utmost care up until that time. Then the young man asks her to leave with him for a faraway place.
Mullebanga
There is a poor farmer couple. The landowner, an old man, covetous of the tenant's wife, tries to seduce her and sometimes threatens her. The wife spends every night with the old man at the water mill. Her husband, hearing the news, runs to the water mill and witnesses them together.
Maui gyuedan
A chief surgeon kills the nurse with whom he is having an affair after he becomes engaged to be married to the hospital director's daughter. He becomes tormented by her spirit.
Geomeun meori
Yeon-shil is the lover of crime boss Dong-il. She pays off one of the boss's henchmen, Man-ho, with whom she once had an affair; Man-ho is an opium addict, and he has been blackmailing Yeon-shil by threatening to disclose their past relations.
Toraoji annun haebyong
A division of marines survive a battle with the Chinese army but find themselves stranded without contact on the wrong side of the front.