Dongsimcho
6.4
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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Cast
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Choi Eun-hee
Lee Sook-hee
Also in
The Flower in Hell
Mother and a Guest
Um Aing-ran
Oh Kyung-hee
Known for
The Housemaid
Sang-ok Shin
Jo Nam-sa
Woon-sam Park
Kim Jin-kyu
Kim Sang-gyu
Known for
The Housemaid
Ju Jeung-nyeo
Mrs. Kim (Sister of Sang-gyu)
Known for
The Housemaid
Lee Bong-rae
Kim Seok-hun
Han Ki-cheol (Sang-gyu's friend)
Also in
Farewell to the Duman River
Secret Executioners
Kim Dong-won
Chairman (President of publishing company)
Also in
Bound by Chastity Rule
Goryeojang
Han Eun-jin
Mrs. Park (Mother of Okju)
Also in
Bound by Chastity Rule
The Surrogate Womb
Do Kum-bong
Ok-joo Lee (Sang-gyu's fiancé)
Also in
A Bloodthirsty Killer
Tosuni: The Birth of Happiness
Shin Sang-ok Director · Lee Bong-rae Screenplay Jo Nam-sa Story
First release July 9, 1959 · Produced in South Korea · Production Korea Films
Production
Korean Films Co.
Production
Korea Films
Production
South Korea
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Original title
동심초
Original language
Korean
Spoken on screen
Korean
Release dates
South Korea · July 9, 1959
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No release date listed for United States.
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