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The Kim family, Ki-taek, Chung-sook and their grown children Ki-woo and Ki-jung, scrape by in a cramped semi-basement flat in Seoul. When a friend arranges for Ki-woo to tutor the daughter of the wealthy Park family, the Kims see a chance to work their way, one by one, into the rich household.
In 1988, businessman Oh Dae-su is snatched off the street after a night of drunken trouble and locked inside a sealed room with only a television. For fifteen years he has no idea who imprisoned him or why. When he is suddenly set free, he hunts for his captor, crossing paths with a young sushi chef named Mi-do.
In October 1986, two women are found murdered on the edge of a small town, and the poorly equipped local police are soon overwhelmed. Detectives Park Doo-man and Cho Yong-koo rely on violence and fake evidence, while Seo Tae-yoon, a better-trained detective from Seoul, joins the hunt as more killings follow.
A young Buddhist apprentice lives with his master in a small monastery floating on a lake deep in the forested mountains. Told across five seasons spread over many years, the film follows the boy's life of prayer and quiet routine as he grows from childhood toward old age.
Park Gang-du is a slow-witted man who sells snacks from a little stand by Seoul's Han River with his father. When a huge creature rises from the water and attacks the riverside park, it carries off his daughter Hyun-seo. After a phone call reveals she is trapped in the sewers, Gang-du and his family escape a government quarantine to search for her.
Tae-suk is a loner who rides around on his motorbike, slipping into homes whose owners are away, where he quietly washes clothes and fixes broken things. In one large house, he is watched by Sun-hwa, a former model mistreated by her husband. After seeing the husband's cruelty firsthand, Tae-suk leaves with her, and the two begin a wordless bond.
After 13 years in prison for the kidnapping and murder of a young boy, a crime she did not commit, Lee Geum-ja walks free, praised as a model of reform. But her gentle behavior behind bars was only a cover. Calling in favors from former inmates, she sets out to take revenge on the real killer.
Lee Jong-su, an aspiring novelist doing odd jobs in Seoul, runs into Shin Hae-mi, a childhood neighbor he barely remembers. Before leaving on a trip to Africa, she asks him to feed her cat, and when she returns she introduces him to Ben, a mysterious young man who leaves Jong-su uneasy.
When two North Korean soldiers are shot dead at a guard post inside the Joint Security Area, wounded South Korean sergeant Lee Soo-hyeok escapes back across the border. To calm rising tensions, Swiss Army Major Sophie E. Jean is sent by a neutral commission to investigate, and she soon notices that the stories from both sides do not add up.
Man-su, a longtime paper-company employee, lives happily in his childhood home with his wife Mi-ri and their two children. When the company is sold and he is laid off, he promises his family he will be back in the paper business within three months, but more than a year later he is still jobless and growing desperate enough to turn on his rivals.
In 1997, Yong-gu, a man with a developmental disability, lives happily with his six-year-old daughter Ye-sung and promises to buy her a Sailor Moon backpack. After a tragic accident involving a police commissioner's young daughter, he is wrongly arrested for her death and sent to prison, where his cellmates at first look down on him.
A widow sells medicinal herbs in a small southern town and dotes on her only son, Do-joon, a shy young man with an intellectual disability. When a high school girl is found dead and Do-joon is arrested on flimsy evidence, his mother is sure he is innocent and sets out to find the real killer herself.
After treatment in a mental hospital, teenager Su-mi returns to her family's isolated country house with her father and younger sister Su-yeon. There she clashes again and again with their unsettling stepmother, Eun-joo, as strange and frightening things begin to happen in the house.
In 1980, Kim Man-seob is a widowed taxi driver in Seoul, raising his child alone and buried in debt. When he overhears another driver boasting about a well-paid fare to Gwangju, he grabs the job for himself. His passenger is Peter, a German journalist hoping to report on the growing unrest there, which Man-seob knows nothing about.
Sang-hyun, a Catholic priest, volunteers for an experiment to find a vaccine for a deadly virus. The trial goes wrong, and although he seems to recover, he is left a vampire who craves human blood. At the same time, he finds himself drawn to Tae-ju, who is married to his childhood friend Kang-woo.
Insomniac Busan detective Jang Hae-jun, who sees his wife only on weekends, looks into the death of a retired immigration officer found dead below a mountain he liked to climb. Suspicion falls on the man's much younger widow, Song Seo-rae, a Chinese emigrant who cares for the elderly, and as Hae-jun watches her closely, he begins to develop feelings for her.
During the reign of King Yeonsan in the late 15th century, street clowns and tightrope walkers Jangsaeng and Gong-gil flee to Seoul and start a new troupe. When their bold skit poking fun at the king gets them arrested, they are given one chance to escape execution: they must make the tyrant himself laugh.
During the Korean War, student volunteer Oh Jang-beom barely survives a brutal battle and is shaken by what he has seen. He is then put in charge of a newly formed unit of untrained student soldiers, joined by a defiant young criminal named Ku Kap-jo, and ordered to hold a key position.
Kim Sun-woo is a top enforcer who has served crime boss Kang loyally for years. Before leaving on a business trip, Kang asks him to keep watch over his young mistress, Hee-soo, whom he suspects of seeing another man. When Sun-woo catches her with her lover, he chooses to spare them, a decision that turns his boss against him.
Firefighter Kim Ja-hong is killed while on duty and is led into the afterlife by three grim reapers: Gang-rim, Hae Won-maek and Lee Deok-choon. As his guardians, they must defend him through seven trials over 49 days; if he passes, he will be reborn, and they will move closer to their own reincarnation.
Sang-hyeon and his friend Dong-soo secretly take babies left in a church's baby box and sell them to adoptive parents on the black market. When So-young comes back for her newborn son, she decides to join them on a road trip to find a family for him, while two detectives follow their trail.
Teenagers Yeo-jin and Jae-yeong are trying to save money for a trip to Europe. Jae-yeong sells herself to men while Yeo-jin sets up the meetings and keeps watch for the police, until one day a police raid goes wrong and their plan unravels with painful results.
In 1992, an elite group of North Korean soldiers trains under commander Park Mu-young to slip into South Korea as sleeper agents. Years later, South Korean agent Yu Jung-won and his partner Lee Jang-gil hunt for Lee Bang-hee, a deadly sniper from that unit, while Jung-won keeps the truth about his job from his fiancée Myung-hyun.
In an alternate 2009, Korea is still ruled by Imperial Japan. Masayuki Sakamoto, an agent of the Japanese Bureau of Investigation, and his partner Shojiro Saigo stop a hostage crisis at a museum, and Sakamoto grows curious about why the rebels were after a mysterious artifact and the foundation linked to it.
Lee Ja-sung is a police officer who has spent eight years working undercover inside Goldmoon International, a crime syndicate run like a giant corporation. Chief Kang keeps putting off his promised transfer, and when Goldmoon's chairman dies in an accident, a fierce fight over who will replace him puts Ja-sung in even greater danger.
Crown Prince Sado, heir to King Yeongjo, sets out on a plot to kill his own father. The film moves back and forth between the crisis that follows and the long story of how father and son reached this point, from a king fixated on his young son's lessons to a boy who would rather paint and socialize.
Su-jin, a 27-year-old fashion designer and the daughter of a construction company CEO, is heartbroken after being rejected by a married colleague. A brief mix-up with a tall stranger at a convenience store leads to a chance reunion, and she is drawn to Chul-soo, a man from a very different background.
Kim Seong-geun, buried in debt and feeling hopeless, jumps from a bridge into the Han River and washes up on Bamseom, a small island in the middle of Seoul. Unable to swim back, he starts to enjoy a simple life free of his worries, while Kim Jung-yeon, a young woman who never leaves her room, spots his message written in the sand.
Hee-jin, a woman who does not speak, runs a remote fishing resort of small floating cabins, rowing guests back and forth and quietly supplying whatever they need. When Hyun-shik, a troubled man on the run from the law, arrives at the resort, an unusual and intense bond slowly forms between them, told almost entirely without dialogue.
Seh-hee and Ji-woo have been a couple for two years, and Seh-hee is consumed by jealousy and the fear that he is growing tired of her. Convinced he wants someone new, she vanishes without a word and undergoes cosmetic surgery, planning to win him back with a new face and a different name.
Car salesman Lee Jung-soo is driving home to Seoul when a newly opened tunnel caves in, pinning his car under concrete and steel. With a weak phone signal, he reaches emergency services, while rescue chief Kim Dae-kyung sets up outside and his wife Se-hyun waits for news. To stay alive, he must ration two bottles of water and a cake meant for his daughter.
In present-day Seoul, architect Lee Seung-min is caught off guard when Yang Seo-yeon, a woman he knew in college years ago, asks him to build her a new house where her old family home stands on Jeju Island. As they work together, he is pulled back into memories of the early 1990s, when they first met in an architecture class.
Young-goon, a young woman who works assembling radios, believes she is a cyborg. After she tries to "recharge" herself with a power cord, she is sent to a mental hospital full of colorful patients, where she refuses food and talks only to machines. There she meets Il-soon, a man who begins to fall for her.
Young-hee is an actress who leaves Seoul after a very public affair with a married film director. She spends time in Hamburg with her older friend Jee-young, wandering markets, parks and bookshops, and later returns to the Korean coastal city of Gangneung, where she meets old friends over dinner and drinks.
After her husband dies in a car accident, Lee Shin-ae moves with her young son Jun to Miryang, her late husband's hometown, hoping for a fresh start. When her car breaks down on the way in, local mechanic Kim Jong-chan comes to her aid, and he keeps helping out as she opens a piano school and settles into the town.
In 1933, with Korea under Japanese rule, resistance captain Yem Sek-jin is tasked with recruiting three unruly independence fighters, Ahn Okyun, Big Gun and Duk-sam. Their mission is to sneak into Seoul and kill a Japanese general, Kawaguchi Mamoru, along with the pro-Japanese businessman Kang In-guk.
During the 1950 Hungnam evacuation of the Korean War, young Deok-soo is separated from his little sister, and his father stays behind to search for her. Before they part, his father makes Deok-soo promise to look after the family, and the boy flees to Busan with his mother and siblings to start over.
