Glorious Moment: A Woman’s Scroll (1972)

1972

Osono and Eisuke would like to get married but with her up to her neck in debt due to her late father’s illness and him trying to raise the funds to start a business, they can’t afford to do so. Osono agrees to work as a geisha and eventually is tricked into becoming a businessman’s mistress, all because she wants to help her lover. The businessman, in turn, is actually only interested in training her […]

Female Animal (1970)

1970

A sultry Latin peasant woman, who has overstayed her welcome in her relatives’ home, is run off the road while bicycling by a wealthy aristocrat. Immediately attracted to her, he hires her as his “maid” and introduces her to the good life. She soon finds herself in a bitter power struggle between the man and his spoiled playboy son. After being subjected to an LSD cocktail and a shipboard orgy, and having slept with the […]

Dad’s Friend (2016)

2016

Seok-ho whose wife passed away 10 years ago, doesn’t have children and is living a simple life on the outskirts of Seoul running an agricultural agency. His gums start hurting one day but the dentist say there’s nothing wrong with him. However, the pain gets so bad it hurts his head sometimes. Seok-ho becomes sad, thinking that this is what ‘aging’ is. On his 55th birthday, his one and only friend Byeong-sik invites him to […]