In Ming Dynasty China, the retiring abbot of a Buddhist monastery invites two dignitaries to help him choose a successor, not suspecting that both of...
A traveling scholar is intent on translating a Buddhist sutra that is said to have power over the creatures of the afterlife. He slowly finds himself...
In the northern Manchuria, Yun, a Korean is troubled by his son Ji-ryong's relationship with Geum-hwa, a Chinese maiden. His servant Il-chun and his...
Due to her father's debts, Yun Go-na marries Song Kye-nam but she is unhappy because of Kye-nam's self-indulgent lifestyle. Go-na takes her daughter,...
A woman refuses to give into her fiance's desire that she take a job as a secretary in his father's office. Instead she eventually decides to try to...
During the Korean War, a widow living in a village in a mountainous region in the South of the Korean Peninsula that has lost most of its men to the...
The villagers of a remote fishing village on the west coast of Korea have a belief that if someone drowns in the sea, his spirit cannot depart until...
Yu Mi-young, an ordinary housewife, loses her husband in a car accident. Two women come to his funeral and she is raged with his betrayal. She finds...
"Le Grand Chef 2" begins with the Korean president visiting the Japanese Prime Minister and becoming involved in a heated debate over the origins of...
