Baek Gyeol

Mother's Wedding

Things backfire for young Cheol-hie when she convinces her father to go on a blind date with her kindergarten teacher. It turns out that her teacher is actually Cheol-hie's birth mother. While at first, Cheol-hie is excited at the possibility of her parents getting back together, it turns out that her mother/teacher has different wedding plans coming up in the near future.

A Battle Journal

A man, feeling guilty and depressed over a life-and-death decision he made while rock climbing, which left his friend dead, regains hope and the will to live when an elderly man gives him a diary belonging to a soldier during the Korean War.

A Troupe of Strolling Actors

Cheonae orphan, Deok, is accidentally discovered by Park Chi-sam in Namsadang, and disguises himself as a man and enters Namsadang. Deok becomes close with Man-jin, a man of the same age, and endures all kinds of hardships.

Life

The film based on the true story of Kim Gwang-seon, a mineworker who survived a collapse of Gubong Mine in August 22, 1967. The story focuses on the importance of saving a life, and the survivors' will to live.

A Day Off

One Sunday, a penniless unmarried young South Korean couple meet, as they do every Sunday; while the pregnant young woman believes they are not ready to bring a child into the world, the young man decides to go visit his friends to borrow money for delivery.

Homebound

A writer who was disabled during the Korean War is now contributing a serial to a newspaper. His wife, who once adored him, is tempted by a young man she happens to know. But he overlooks her affair thanking her for her utmost care up until that time. Then the young man asks her to leave with him for a faraway place.

A Water Mill

There is a poor farmer couple. The landowner, an old man, covetous of the tenant's wife, tries to seduce her and sometimes threatens her. The wife spends every night with the old man at the water mill. Her husband, hearing the news, runs to the water mill and witnesses them together. He picks up the sickle that was placed near and kills his wife. The landowner escapes and the farmer gets arrested by a Japanese policeman.