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location_onGangnam, SeoulpublicKR

Prostitution 3 1993
Lee Hyun, is left with her father's debts to the mob when he dies. Only a college student with little choice, she pays the debt by working as a nightclub hostess for the mob. Just before paying off the debt she takes the risk and escapes. Hyun enrolls at a job training center where she meets Yumi, Seora and Hyemin; from similar situations. They all graduate together but with no place to go, Hyemin takes them to an East Coast nightclub. There, Hyun meets Sang Won and finds herself falling in love. Ashamed of her background, Hyun but refuses to start a relationship. Will she reveal her past to him or work at the nightclub? Will Yumi reunite with her child or find others to help?

신의 아들 1986 star_border 4

The Wandering Stars 1986

Gilsodom 1986 star_border 6.4
A middle-aged woman in Busan searches for the son she lost in Gilsodom during the Korean War.

The Blazing Sun 1985 star_border 5.4
Chun-ho and his wife Sun-hie wander Korea in search of a way to make a living under Japanese colonial occupation. They settle in a mining village where Sun-hie is forced to put up with her husband's gambling and beatings. Eventually he forces her to go to a loanshark so he can get enough money to run away with a prostitute.

Hunting of Fools 1984 star_border 6
Seok-ho is unable to overcome his fear that he will not graduate from college for only a limited number of the class will get their diplomas. Seok-ho tries to kill himself and ends up in a mental institution. Then he persuades his fellow patient, Hong-ik, to escape with him. After dealing with several incidents, they become miners. They meet a simple young woman. In order to construct an ideal land, they head for a deserted island in the South Sea. However, just before they're about to leave for the island, Seok-ho realizes that the island is a fantasy of an insane man so he runs off with the woman. Left behind, Hong-ik is disheartened but he gets together with the elderly innkeeper couple whose own son died of a mental illness. They head for the deserted island on a boat.

Declaration of Fools 1984 star_border 6.2
Beginning with the suicide of a film director, this work represents the Korean New Wave Cinema movement that focused on criticizing the Korean society in the 1980s through satire and humor. The journey taken by the characters, who lead low lives at the margins of the society, award them with a sense of liberation, however brief.

Widow Dancing 1984 star_border 10
A group of widows come with several frauds and scams in an effort to cheat the system which marginalizes them and to make a better life for themselves and their children.

Winter Woman Part 2 1983
Li-hwa graduates college and becomes a reporter. On a rainy day, she remembers an old boyfriend, Suk-gi. She goes to Eroika to look for him. Instead, Li-hwa meets Suk-gi's friend, Su-hwan, and she falls in love with him. On the other hand, while on a story, Li-hwa meets Kwang-jun who is a night teacher. She is drawn to his sincere humanity. As time passes, Kwang-jun comes to know Li-hwa's feelings. Together, they help children and offer guidance to prostitutes. Kwang-jun and Li-hwa have true love for each other but they part when Kwang-jun's non-permitted building is demolished. Hyun-wu ended up as a mental patient from the shock he received from his mother's scandalous behavior. He meets Li-hwa and receives her devoted care. Finally, Hyun-wu recovers completely and the two confirm their love. And the next day, Hyun-wu returns to society as a healthy man.

The Village of Mist 1983 star_border 7.1
A young South Korean woman moves to an isolated mountain village, where all of the villagers are related except for a mysterious vagabond, to take up her first teaching post.

Polluted Ones 1982 star_border 5.5

Come Down to a Lower Place 1982
Yo-han is the son of a Christian minister. Following his father's career, he joins the seminary without much enthusiasm, then drops out. After doing his military service as a KATUSA, he teaches at the U.S. educational center. When he is given a job teaching in America, he hastily marries in preparation for the move. He is suddenly struck blind, then begins contemplating suicide. Instead he has a religious vision and dedicates himself to the ministry, and opens a church for the blind.

Mandala 1981 star_border 6.5
A story that follows the lives and interactions of two Buddhist monks living in South Korea.

Haunted Villa 1981 star_border 5
Dr Han rapes his lab assistant one night. Rather than go to the police, the victim keeps quiet only bringing up the subject months later to inform the doctor that she is pregnant. Her attempts to blackmail him lead to her accidentally falling off a cliff. However, her ghost will not allow Han to forget his crimes.

Byung-tae and Young-ja (Sequel) 1980 star_border 3
Byung-tae and Young-ja are married. His mother wants them to move out and they are faced with the harsh realities of making a living. Byung-tae perseveres and finally gets a job at a conglomerate. But Young-ja, ashamed of her husband's position, lies at her school reunion that Byung-tae has just been promoted to an executive director. On her birthday, he returns home late and they fight. Later, she finds out that he must entertain clients by drinking endlessly and she feels sorry for him. Byung-tae despairs of his life of drinking late hours almost every night. But seeing people jogging in the early morning hours inspires him to push on.

The Hidden Hero 1980 star_border 4.5
After the war, a journalist investigates a Communist leader in South Korea.

Twelve Gates of Hell 1980
A famous action movie star suddenly dies and goes to hell. Realizing that this is a plot against him by demons and that he was sent there unjustly, he battles his way through the 12 gates of hell to be reincarnated. He is accompanied and aided by an odd collection of spirits including a moon girl who falls in love with him.

Champ vs. Champ 1980 star_border 5.2
A gang leader targets the daughter of an enemy who's been promised to a local fighter. After losing his leg to a poison arrow, the fighter learns to fight again using a metal leg.

Eighteen Women Fighters of Murim 1979 star_border 3.4
A ruthless Warlord from Manchuria builds a martial arts labyrinth that contains 18 martial art amazons, many try to enter but none leave, until Dragon Lee, seeking to avenge his father.

Genealogy 1979 star_border 5.7
During the Japanese occupation of South Korea, a Japanese bureaucrat is ordered to persuade an influential Korean patriarch into obeying the law of changing his Korean surname to a Japanese one.

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