(동심초)

Content: Lee Suk-hui (Choe Eun-hui) lost her husband to the Korean War eight years ago. She runs a dressmaking shop that has fallen into debt. When Kim Sang-gyu (Kim Jin-gyu), the executive director of a publishing company, helps her pay off debts, she falls in love with him. He, however, is engaged to the daughter of his boss, Ok-ju (Do Geum-bong). His sister (Ju Jeung-nyeo) pushes him to marry the boss's daughter, hoping that will bring him rapid success. Meanwhile, Suk-hui's grown-up daughter Gyeong-hui, wanting her mother to be happy, urges her mother to marry Sang-gyu, but Suk-hui vacillates between social mores and her own happiness. Even though she and Sang-gyu truly love each other, she decides to leave him and heads for her country home after selling her house in Seoul. Hearing the news, he who is ill in bed hurries to Seoul station, but it is too late. All he can do is just to stand on the platform and to watch her train pulling away.

Countries:

South Korea

Genres:

Drama,

Romance

Runtime:

126 minutes

Year:

1959

Directors:

Shin Sang-ok

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Production companies:

Korean Films Co.

Actors:

Lee Sook-hee

Oh Kyung-hee

Kim Sang-gyu

Mrs. Kim (Sister of Sang-gyu)

Han Ki-cheol (Sang-gyu's friend)

Crews:

Art Direction

Producer

Assistant Director

Music

Cinematography