#718 – Snowpiercer, 2013, Bong Joon-ho
In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine.
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#723 – Chunhyang, (춘향뎐), 2000, Im Kwon-taek
Mongryong marries the beautiful Chunhyang without telling his father, the Governor of Namwon. When his father is transferred to Seoul, Mongryong has to leave Chunhyang and finish his exams. Chunhyang, being the daughter of a courtesan, is also legally a courtesan. She is beaten and imprisoned when she refuses to obey the new Governor Byun, as she wishes to be faithful to her husband. After three years, Mongryong passes his exam and becomes an emissary to the King. He returns to Namwon, disguised as a beggar, just before Chunhyang is to be flogged to death at the governor’s birthday celebration.
#734 – Oasis, (오아시스), 2002, Lee Chang-dong
Oasis is a love story of two young people abandoned by families. A young man released from prison visits the widow of the man he killed drunk-driving. There he meets her daughter, wheelchair bound with cerebral palsy. Will these two lost people find a way to make their relationship work?
#853 – A Hometown in Heart, (마음의 고향), 1949, Yoon Yong-kyu
Do-seong is a child monk who lives at a small mountain temple with the head monk, learning the teachings of Buddha. He becomes attached to a young widow who comes to pray at the temple, and the childless widow entreats the head monk to let her raise Do-seong as her own son.
#860 – The Chaser, (추격자), 2008, Na Hong-jin
Joong-ho is a dirty detective turned pimp in financial trouble as several of his girls have recently disappeared without clearing their debts. While trying to track them down, he finds a clue that the vanished girls were all called up by the same client whom one of his girls is meeting with right now.
#863 – The Coachman, (마부), 1961, Kang Dae-jin
A man tries to raise his two sons and two daughters under some of the most adverse conditions known to man. The father operates a horse-drawn cart, but in a city that is modernizing after the destruction of the Korean War, automobiles are making carts obsolete. The children are experiencing difficulties as well. The eldest son has flunked the bar exam twice and is not hopeful of passing it a third time to become a lawyer. The eldest daughter is mute and married to an abusive husband. The younger daughter tries to pose as a rich university student to move up in life. The youngest son has a penchant for petty theft.
#864 – The March of Fools, (바보들의 행진), 1975, Ha Gil-jong
The story is set in the 1970s during the period of military dictatorship. Schools were frequently closed and society seemed to face bleak prospects on all fronts. Nonetheless, Byung Tae, a college student, enjoys pursuing romance in blind group dates. It’s during one of these ventures that he meets Young-ja, a French literature student.
#865 – Madame Freedom, (자유부인), 1956, Han Hyeong-mo
A professor’s wife, O Seon-yeong, starts working at a boutique shop. She meets Choe Yun-ju and goes to a dance party. She happens to like Sin Chun-ho, so she learns dancing from the next-door neighbor. Meanwhile, professor Jang is attracted to his student, who works as a typist. But he does not want to ruin his family while waiting for his wife to come home. In the end O realizes her mistake and comes back home with regret.
#868 – Declaration of Fools, (바보 선언), 1984, Lee Jang-ho
This is a film which ridicules the weaknesses of South Korean society.
#872 – The Foggy Town, (안개), 1967, Kim Soo-yong
Yun Gi-jun has become the executive director of a pharmaceutical company by marrying the widowed daughter of the company CEO. With the general shareholders’ meeting coming up shortly, his wife suggests that he visit his hometown of Mujin and he takes her advice.
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