Dongsimcho

Dongsimcho (1959)

07/09/1959 (KR)
02h 06m

Overview

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.

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Choi Eun-hee

Choi Eun-hee

Lee Sook-hee

Um Aing-ran

Um Aing-ran

Oh Kyung-hee

Kim Jin-kyu

Kim Jin-kyu

Kim Sang-gyu

Ju Jeung-nyeo

Ju Jeung-nyeo

Mrs. Kim (Sister of Sang-gyu)

Kim Seok-hun

Kim Seok-hun

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

Kim Dong-won

Kim Dong-won

Chairman (President of publishing company)

Han Eun-jin

Han Eun-jin

Mrs. Park (Mother of Okju)

Do Kum-bong

Do Kum-bong

Ok-joo Lee (Sang-gyu's fiancé)

Kim Seung-ho

Kim Seung-ho

Busan President Kim (Trader)

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