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Seok-woo, a cynical, workaholic divorced father in Seoul, agrees to take his young daughter Su-an to see her mother in Busan. They board the KTX train with a mix of other passengers just as a sudden outbreak sweeps the country, and an infected woman slips aboard right before departure.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Cha Tae-sik is a quiet man who runs a pawnshop, and his only friend is So-mi, the little girl who lives next door. When So-mi's mother steals drugs from a gang and hides them in a bag she leaves with Tae-sik, the gangsters come for the drugs and take So-mi, pulling him into a violent fight to get her back.
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.
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.
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.
In 1597, Joseon's navy has been cut down to about a dozen ships after a crushing defeat, and Admiral Yi Sun-sin is restored to command. As a huge Japanese fleet prepares to push toward the capital, he must face an overwhelming enemy at the Myeongnyang Strait.
An-na, an AI researcher who recently lost her husband, wakes up to find floodwater rising through her 30-floor apartment building. With her six-year-old son, Ja-in, she struggles to climb toward the roof as a huge disaster unfolds, and a mysterious call tells her that agents are coming to pick them up by helicopter.
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-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.
Kang In-ho arrives in the city of Mujin to start a new job as the art teacher at Ja-ae Academy, a school for Deaf children. Eager to connect, he finds the students withdrawn and wary of him, and as they slowly open up, he uncovers the terrible abuse they have suffered at the hands of the school's staff.
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.
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.
In 1953, ceasefire talks drag on while soldiers keep battling over hills along the 38th Parallel that change hands again and again. When a South Korean company commander at the Aerok Hills is found shot by a southern bullet, counterintelligence officer Kang Eun-pyo is sent to investigate and find a suspected mole.
As a boy, Nam-yi flees with his younger sister Ja-in when the king's guards hunt down their father, a skilled archer and officer. Thirteen years later, Nam-yi is a gifted archer and hunter, and when Manchu forces raid the village on Ja-in's wedding day and carry her off, he sets out to rescue her.
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.
Yeon is a lonely housewife struggling with depression and anger, and she discovers her husband has been unfaithful. She has been following news about Jin, a notorious prisoner on death row who keeps trying to end his life, and she begins visiting him, treating this stranger as though he were a former lover.
In 2135, rising seas have made Earth unlivable, and humanity has moved to space shelters now locked in decades of war. Captain Yun Jung-yi is a legendary mercenary fighting to pay for her young daughter's medical care, until a failed mission leaves her in a coma. Years later, an AI company clones her brain to build a combat robot code-named Jung_E.
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.
Su-min, an orphan, must leave his orphanage when he turns 18. Unable to afford university, he moves to Seoul and works several jobs, including driving drunk people home, to cover the cost of computer lessons. When his factory job ends he starts working at a host bar, where Jae-min, a man he once drove home who has since fallen for him, walks back into his life.
Three North Korean agents, trained since youth in an elite unit, slip into South Korea disguised as a village fool, a would-be rock musician and a high school student. With no new orders arriving, they slowly settle into everyday life in a small neighborhood, until a sudden mission throws everything into disorder.
During Japan's occupation of Korea in World War II, more than 400 Koreans are forced into brutal labor on Hashima Island. Pushed to their limits by the harsh conditions, they gamble everything on a bold plan to break out.
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 Busan's Haeundae district, Man-sik is haunted by a past mistake at sea that cost the life of Yeon-hee's father, even as she hopes to build a relationship with him. Around them, a geologist, his ex-wife, a lifeguard and other locals go about their lives, unaware of the enormous disaster bearing down on the coast.
Yeo Kyung-jin is an ambitious young Seoul police officer. While chasing a purse snatcher, she arrests the wrong man: Go Myung-woo, a physics teacher at a girls' school who was really trying to stop the thief himself. When she is later assigned to escort him through a rough district, the two end up handcuffed together in the middle of a gang clash.
Under President Chun Doo-hwan's military regime, student activist Park Jong-chul dies while being questioned by police. Commissioner Park Cheo-won moves to hide what happened by having the body cremated before any autopsy, but a stubborn prosecutor refuses to sign off. The film is based on real events.
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.
Oh Mal-soon is a stubborn, sharp-tongued 74-year-old widow who lives with her son's family and clashes with her daughter-in-law. Upset after learning her family plans to send her to a nursing home, she wanders into a mysterious photo studio and walks out to find she has turned back into her 20-year-old self.
In 1598, seven years into Japan's invasion of Joseon, Toyotomi Hideyoshi dies after ordering his troops home. Admiral Yi Sun-sin, fighting alongside allies from Ming China, has Konishi Yukinaga's army trapped at Suncheon, and the desperate Konishi tries to bribe a Ming admiral into letting his forces slip away by sea.
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.
In 1968, after North Korean commandos sneak into the South in a failed attempt to kill President Park Chung Hee, the South Korean military gathers 31 outcasts, including convicts facing death sentences, into a secret team called Unit 684. Sent to the island of Silmido for brutal training, the men are promised their freedom and a fresh start if they complete a mission to kill Kim Il Sung.
In 1978, Song, a former judge who passed the bar without going to university, moves to Busan to open his own law firm. Looked down on by other lawyers, he grows rich by taking the real estate and tax cases they avoid. By 1981 he is enjoying his success, until the son of the woman who runs his favorite restaurant goes missing.
In Joseon, Jo Dol-seok is a commoner-born tailor who has dressed three generations of kings and now heads the Sanguiwon, the royal clothing department. When the king's robe is accidentally burned, the Queen turns to Lee Gong-jin, a charming young designer known for bold, unconventional hanboks, setting the two tailors on a path of rivalry.
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.
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.
