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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.
At Incheon airport, a strange man named Jin-seok secretly carries a deadly virus onto a passenger flight, hidden in an asthma inhaler. Among those on board are Jae-hyuk and his young daughter Soo-min, while on the ground Detective In-ho starts tracing an online terror threat video back to the man.
In 1990, civil war tears through Somalia as rebels rise against the Barre government. The North and South Korean embassies are each courting Somali support in their bids to join the United Nations. While South Korean ambassador Han Sin-seong confronts his northern rival Rim Yong-su over a sabotaged meeting, rebel forces storm the capital. The film is based on real events.
Gil Bok-soon is a contract killer working for an agency run by Min-kyu, but at home she is a mother quietly raising her daughter, Jae-young. Unsure how to talk with her daughter about the changes in her life, she finds her two worlds harder and harder to keep apart.
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.
Gi-heon, a former agent living alone with a traumatic past, accepts one last job from the intelligence agency: safely moving Seo Bok, a test subject created through cloning and genetic engineering. Attacked as soon as the mission begins, the two barely escape and set off on an uneasy journey together while several groups hunt for Seo Bok.
Nae-gyeong is the most gifted face reader in Joseon, able to judge a person's character from their features, but he lives far from the world. When a gisaeng named Yeon-hong offers him a profitable deal reading her guests' faces, he is pulled into a murder case, and his talent soon draws the attention of the royal court.
Lee Dae-ho raises his daughter Ha-na alone while managing a 120-story luxury tower complex in Seoul, and he has promised to spend Christmas Eve with her. Instead he must oversee a lavish party, and despite worries about frozen sprinkler pipes and high winds, the owner pushes ahead until a helicopter accident sets a tower ablaze.
Three grim reapers, Gang-rim, Haewonmak and Lee Deok-choon, guide Kim Soo-hong, their 49th soul, through a series of trials in the afterlife. Meanwhile, the God of the House sets out to bring back the reapers' lost memories from a thousand years ago.
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.
Kim Seung-hyeon, a taekwondo champion, walks away from fighting for good so he can look after his daughter, Sarang. When a ruthless gambling boss kidnaps her, he has no choice but to step into a rigged boxing match in exchange for her release.
National judo athlete Doo-young permanently loses his sight after an injury at an international match. His estranged older brother Doo-shik, a swindler, uses the crisis to win parole from prison and moves back home, adding fresh stress for a young man who has fended for himself since losing their parents.
Hanna Kang is an overweight young woman who secretly provides the voice for Ammy, a famous pop star who only lip-syncs. Hanna has a crush on Sang-jun, a director whose father owns Ammy's record label, but after a cruel humiliation she persuades a plastic surgeon to completely transform her appearance.
Doctor Kim Joon-young is heading home when his daughter Eun-jung is killed in a car accident. He then wakes to find the same day starting over, and no matter what he tries, he cannot save her as the day keeps repeating.
After a personal scandal, police academy instructor Lee Yeong-nam is sent from Seoul to lead a small police station in a quiet seaside town. There she meets Seon Do-hee, a timid 14-year-old covered in bruises from her abusive stepfather and grandmother, and offers the girl a place to stay over the summer break.
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.
Sun-hee, a hardworking cashier and mother of two, works at a big supermarket with single mother Hye-mi and cleaner Soon-rye, all on temporary contracts. Sun-hee hopes to be made a permanent employee, but when the company suddenly announces that every temporary worker will be let go, the women decide to go on strike.
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.
Told through pansori singing, this film retells a classic Korean folktale set in 18th-century Korea. Mongryong, a governor's son, falls in love with and secretly marries Chunhyang, the daughter of a courtesan, but when his father is posted to Seoul he must leave her behind, promising to return once he passes the state exam.
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.
Yoon Ji-wook is a tough homicide detective, a legend on the force and feared by gangsters. Behind that hard image, Ji-wook has longed to live as a woman since adolescence and finally decides to have gender-affirming surgery. But a gang Ji-wook once cracked down on is set on revenge, throwing those plans into chaos.
In the Joseon era, the suspicious and fearful King Gwanghae orders his official Heo Gyun to find a double who can stand in for him against assassins. Heo Gyun finds Ha-sun, a humble acrobat and jester who looks just like the king, and when the king is suddenly incapacitated, Ha-sun must take his place on the throne.
At an all-girls high school, students Yoo Shi-eun and Min Hyo-shin fall for each other, and their relationship leaves them shunned by their classmates. Fellow student Soh Min-ah stumbles upon a diary the two girls shared, and its pages pull her deeper into their bond and into a strange chain of events at the school.
Won-il was once a promising swimmer like his champion father, but after losing both parents he quits the sport and lives recklessly. Facing expulsion, he is brought by his father's old friend Jae-suk to a sports high school, where he runs into his old rival Woo-sang, now a national swimming star forced to start over.
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.
During the Korean War, a guerrilla battalion of young student volunteers led by army officers is sent to Jangsari Beach. Their job is to stage a decoy landing that fools North Korean forces and clears the way for the Incheon Landing. Meanwhile, an American war reporter covers the conflict and pleads with the world to send help.
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.
In 1980s Korea, Go champion Cho Hun-hyun spots a talented, untrained boy named Lee Chang-ho at an amateur tournament. Seeing his promise, Cho takes the child under his wing and sets out to shape him into a professional player.
At a remote mountain monastery live three Buddhist monks: the orphan boy Hae-jin; Ki-bong, a novice who has left a hard life behind to seek peace; and Hye-gok, an aging master. The old teacher guides Ki-bong with Zen riddles that have no fixed answer, as each of them faces questions of life, duty and death.
Nineteen-year-old Yoon-young dreams of a civil service job and lives with her deaf single mother while working part-time at a café. After a violent assault one night, she ends up in prison, known only as inmate 2037. In despair, she pulls away from her mother and slowly finds support among her cellmates in room 12.
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.
In 1923 Tokyo, Park Yeol leads a small anarchist group of Korean and Japanese members resisting Japan's mistreatment of Koreans, with his sharp, good-humored partner Fumiko at his side. When the Kanto Earthquake devastates the city and violence turns against Koreans, the Japanese government sets its sights on Yeol and his group.
A North Korean man is desperate to find medicine for his pregnant wife, who is sick with tuberculosis. He decides to slip across the border into China to get it, leaving his wife and young son behind, but soon finds life there far harder than he expected.
In 1979, university student Yoon So-eun loves amateur radio and has feelings for Dong-hee, a classmate just back from the army. One night her radio picks up Ji-in, a student at the very same school, but after a failed meeting and a strange argument about the weather, they realize he is speaking to her from the year 2000.
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.
Sang-man, a lonely man who knows nothing about his family, survives an attempt on his own life and wakes up in the hospital able to see ghosts. Four spirits follow him home and refuse to leave, so he agrees to carry out their unfinished wishes, while also getting to know a kind nurse named Yun-soo.
Soon-ho is a lawyer weighed down by his father's debts. He takes on a case in which a housekeeper, Mi-ran, is accused of killing her employer, though she says she simply found him dead. The only witness is Ji-woo, a teenage girl with autism, and Soon-ho sets out to befriend her, hoping to show her account cannot be trusted.
In Gwangju in May 1980, Min-woo lives a fairly quiet life with his younger brother Jin-woo, until soldiers suddenly turn their weapons on the city's people. As residents band together into a militia to protect their families, Min-woo finds himself caught in the middle. The film is based on the real Gwangju massacre.
Police officers R and Noma hunt down rogue cyborgs, machines built for jobs ranging from combat to companionship, each with only a three-year lifespan. R has fallen deeply in love with his companion cyborg Ria, who has days left. Learning that black-market technology can move a cyborg's mind into a human, he searches for Cyon, a young orphan who could be the host.
Sohee, a high school student on a vocational track, is sent for field training at a subcontracted call center. The pressure and harsh work culture there weigh heavily on her. The film also follows detective Oh Yoo-jin, who becomes caught up in what happens to Sohee.
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.
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.
After his wife dies suddenly in an accident, Sang-won is left alone with his daughter Yi-na, and the two have grown distant. Hoping to repair their bond, he moves them into a new house near the countryside. Just as Yi-na brightens up and talks about a new friend, strange noises begin coming from the closet in her room.
In 1925, under Japanese occupation, the legendary hunter Chun Man-duk has put down his rifle and lives quietly as an herb gatherer near Mount Jirisan with his teenage son, Seok. Meanwhile, the Japanese governor general, who collects tiger pelts, grows obsessed with killing a giant one-eyed tiger called the Mountain Lord that has escaped hunters for years.
Kim Won-kang, a one-time football prospect whose life has not gone to plan, travels to East Timor hoping to find new chances. Spotting street kids playing barefoot, he opens a sports shop, only to realize none of them can afford his gear. On the verge of giving up, he instead starts coaching the children in football.
