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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.
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.
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.
Park Se-ri is a cheerful high school student who worries about her naturally curly hair and has a crush on popular classmate Kim Hyun. When a new salon offering hair straightening she can't afford opens in town, she befriends Han Yoon-seok, a transfer student she saved from drowning, whose mother turns out to own the salon.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In Seoul in 1975, nine-year-old Jin-hee is left at a Catholic orphanage by her father after he remarries, having been led to believe she is going on a trip. At the orphanage she struggles to accept being abandoned, holding on to the hope that her father will come back for her.
Four childhood friends grow up side by side: Joon-seok, the group's leader and son of a powerful mob boss; Dong-su, an undertaker's son; Jung-ho, the class clown; and Sang-taek, a model student. As teenagers they share crushes, run-ins with teachers and brawls with rival schools, before their paths start to pull in different directions.
Jang Ji-goo is a 16-year-old on probation, living with his bedridden grandfather, his only known family. His sweet new girlfriend Sae-rom is the one bright spot in his life. After he is caught in a burglary with older boys from the neighborhood, he has no parent to speak for him and is sent to a juvenile reformatory.
Yong-ju, Gi-woong and Gi-taek were best friends in middle school, but they have since drifted apart, with Gi-woong now a feared fighter who runs with a powerful bully's gang. Under heavy pressure to get into a top university, Yong-ju worries as Gi-taek is targeted by the gang, while his own feelings for Gi-woong grow.
When an invitation to his first love's wedding arrives, a man looks back on everything they shared since meeting in high school. The film follows ten years of friendship and romance between the two, from their teenage days into adulthood, with all its ups and downs.
