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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.
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.
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.
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.
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-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.
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.
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.
When Eun-joo moves out of a seaside house called Il Mare, she leaves a Christmas card in its mailbox for the next tenant. Sung-hyun, an architecture student and the house's very first resident, finds the card dated two years in the future. Writing back and forth, the two realize the mailbox links them across time.
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.
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.
Ham Cheon-soo, an art-house filmmaker, comes to Suwon a day early for a screening of his work. Wandering the city with time to kill, he meets Yoon Hee-jung, a former model who now paints, and the two spend the day together over coffee, sushi and soju.
On his eighteenth birthday, Woo-jin wakes up in a stranger's body, and from then on he becomes someone new every morning: old or young, man or woman, sometimes a foreigner. Now a furniture designer who works from home to protect his secret, he falls for Yi-soo, a woman at a furniture store, and tries to find a way to ask her out.
A former boxer has shut himself off from the world and lives a guarded, lonely life. He meets a cheerful telemarketer who keeps her bright spirit even though her eyesight is slowly fading, and a tender romance begins to grow between them.
Julian has lived off money from wealthy female clients, but a rushed business expansion leaves him with crushing debts and one month to pay or die. His only way out is to pose as the long-lost brother of Min, a cold, blind heiress, and get his hands on her fortune.
In the present day, Ji-hye finds a box of her mother Joo-hee's old letters and diary, and through them discovers her mother's first love with Joon-ha during a summer in the countryside in 1968. Her mother's story unfolds alongside Ji-hye's own feelings for Sang-min, a fellow student involved in the school theater.
In 1950, during the Korean War, an American pilot crash-lands near Dongmakgol, a remote mountain village whose residents know nothing about the fighting. Soon three North Korean soldiers and two South Korean deserters are also led there, and the enemies end up in a tense standoff while the puzzled villagers carry on with their daily lives.
Seoul, 1994. Fourteen-year-old Eun-hee is a shy girl who loves drawing and spends her days with her best friend Ji-suk at cram school. Overlooked by her parents and mistreated by her older brother, she finds new warmth when a free-spirited teacher, Ms. Kim, arrives to teach her class.
Fresh out of prison after serving time for a fatal hit-and-run, Hong Jong-du returns to Seoul and finds his family moved away without telling him. Awkward and out of step with everyone, he takes a delivery job and seeks out the victim's family, where he meets Gong-ju, a woman with cerebral palsy who has been left on her own.
Seven-year-old Sang-woo, a spoiled city boy, is left with his elderly grandmother in a remote village while his mother looks for work in Seoul. She cannot speak and walks bent over with a cane, and her home has no electricity or running water, so he treats her rudely while she patiently tries to care for him.
Wonderland is an AI service that lets people talk with loved ones who have passed away through simulated video calls. Archaeologist Bai Li keeps calling her young daughter from a desert dig, flight attendant Jeong-in chats with her astronaut boyfriend Tae-joo, and Wonderland staffer Hae-ri handles customers' cases while fending off teasing calls from her parents.
In a South Korean village near a U.S. military base, local lives are shaped by the base's presence. Chang-guk makes his home in a rusting, abandoned Air Force bus with his mother, who teaches him English and keeps writing to his father in America, though every letter is sent back. Nearby are Eun-ok, a girl with a damaged eye, and a lonely boy, Jihum.
Before she died, Soo-ah promised her husband Woo-jin that she would come back on a rainy day. A year later, during the summer monsoon, she reappears looking just as she did, but with no memory of him or their life together. As Woo-jin tells her their story, she begins to learn about the love she has forgotten.
Loh Kiwan, a North Korean defector, escapes to China with his mother, but harsh authorities tear them apart. Forced to run again, he ends up alone in Brussels during a bitter winter, homeless and struggling to survive. There he meets Marie, an ex-athlete from Belgium who is going through hard times of her own, and the two slowly form a bond.
Jung-won is a photo shop owner in his thirties who lives with his father, his sister and her family after a broken engagement. One day Da-rim, a young parking enforcement officer, comes in needing photos of parking violators printed in a hurry. Something clicks between them, and she starts stopping by more often.
Im Na-mi is a well-off housewife who feels lonely and ignored by her husband and daughter. A hospital visit stirs memories of her 1980s school days, when she was a new girl teased for her country accent and was taken in by a lively group of friends called Sunny. Decades later, she sets out to find them again.
Lighting technician In-su rushes from Seoul to Samcheok after his wife Su-jin is badly hurt in a car accident. At the hospital he meets Seo-young, whose husband Kyung-ho was in the same car, and while both spouses lie in comas, the two strangers discover their partners were having an affair.
Jin-a, a 22-year-old sex worker, arrives at a small seaside motel run by a couple with a grown daughter and son. Given room and board in return for a cut of her earnings, she spends her days drawing and gazing at the sea, while the daughter Hye-mi, the same age as Jin-a, treats her with open contempt.
In 19th-century Korea, Jang Seung-eop, later known as Owon, begins life as a wandering drifter with a gift for drawing and copying other artists' work. Urged to find a style of his own, he struggles through drink, temper and hard years, while the country around him is caught between China and Japan.
Hye-young is a young painter who earns her living sketching portraits. Park Yi, a professional hitman, falls for her the moment he sees her painting in the mountains, and after he quietly builds her a bridge and returns her lost art bag, she begins receiving daisies every afternoon from an unseen admirer.
High school student Han Seo-yoon has a form of amnesia from a car accident that wipes her memory each day, so she relies on notes to understand her own life. When Kim Jae-won is pressured into a fake love confession to stop the bullying of a classmate, she surprises him by saying yes, and he must face the consequences of his lie.
In 16th-century Joseon, where class decides a person's fate, Hwang Jin-yi is raised as an aristocrat until she learns she was born illegitimate. Stripped of her noble status, she leaves her old life behind to become a gisaeng, while Nomi, a longtime family servant, quietly loves her.
Kim Ji-young is a stay-at-home mother raising her young daughter while her husband, Dae-hyun, works at an office. Once happy in a marketing career, she now feels trapped and unfulfilled, and at times she begins speaking and acting as though she were her own mother or late grandmother.
Tae-gu is a mobster who turns down an offer to defect to the rival Bukseong gang. In retaliation, his sister and niece are killed, and after taking bloody revenge on the rival boss, he flees to Jeju Island, where he meets Jae-yeon, a woman with a terminal illness, and her uncle Kuto, an arms dealer.
In 2014, a radio DJ receives a letter from his first love that stirs up long-buried memories. Back in the summer of 1991, five friends spend their days together, and shy, innocent Beom-sil falls for Soo-ok, a girl with an injured leg whom he carries wherever she needs to go.
Overthrown by his uncle, Grand Prince Suyang, the teenage king of Joseon is stripped of his title, renamed Prince Nosan and sent into exile. Eom Heung-do, chief of a poor mountain village in Yeongwol, hopes that hosting an exiled nobleman will bring his people good fortune, and his village is chosen to receive Nosan, who arrives with his loyal maid Mae-hwa.
Sang-min and Ki-hong are strangers who meet on a cold winter day in Helsinki, Finland, after dropping their children off at a kids' camp. When a snowstorm strands them at an inn for the night, they share an intimate connection, then go their separate ways without ever learning each other's names.
Ji-hwan is a taekwondo student and part-time stuntman who dreams of becoming the Korean Jackie Chan. Dal-rae is a drama student and hopeful actress whose shyness keeps costing her auditions. The two have been friends since childhood, but things get complicated when each of them starts dating someone else.
Hong Jeong-hye is serving ten years in prison for killing her abusive husband, and the son she bears behind bars must, by law, be given up for adoption. Promised a day out with her infant if she pulls it off, she sets out to form a choir with fellow inmates, including death-row prisoner Kim Moon-ok.
Told in three short parts, the film follows a young man named Youngho. He waits to see his father, a traditional Korean doctor, at his clinic; later surprises his girlfriend Juwon in Berlin, where she has gone to study fashion; and years after, meets a famous actor, an old friend of his mother, at a seaside restaurant.
Jae-hee is a free-spirited young woman, and Heung-soo is a man keeping something deeply hidden about himself. The two become close friends and share an apartment in Seoul, facing the highs and lows of young adult life side by side. The film is adapted from part of a novel.
Four best friends set off on one last trip together before one of them leaves to do his military service. Along the way, they become caught up in an incident that changes the course of their lives forever.
Three lonely people cross paths at a department store. Mi-jung, a stockroom worker, keeps to herself to avoid others' eyes; Yo-han, who works in the parking garage, is outgoing and loves rock music; and Kyung-rok has traded his dreams for a safe but empty life. Kyung-rok is drawn to Mi-jung right away.
In spring 1999, Kim Young-ho turns up at a riverside reunion of old friends who haven't heard from him in twenty years, behaving wildly before climbing onto a railway bridge. The film then moves backward through two decades of his life, tracing the moments and the turbulent history that brought him to this point.
A wine bar called Story of Wine is celebrating its first anniversary, and Min-sung has put together a special wine list for the night. Each bottle is matched with its own story that reflects its character, touching on love, loss and friendship.
