동심초 (1959)

Synopsis

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.

Distribution

• 최은희Lee Sook-hee
• Um Aing-ranOh Kyung-hee
• Kim Jin-kyuKim Sang-gyu
• Ju Jeung-nyeoMrs. Kim (Sister of Sang-gyu)
• 김석훈Han Ki-cheol (Sang-gyu's friend)
• 김동원Chairman (President of publishing company)
• 한은진Mrs. Park (Mother of Okju)
• Do Kum-bongOk-joo Lee (Sang-gyu's fiancé)
• 김승호Busan President Kim (Trader)
• 이민Shin Dong-il (President of a securities company)
• 주선태Bokdeokbang owner
• 서월영Mrs. Lee
• 임양Miss Song (Securities Company employee)
• 정연자Bogja (Shin Dong-il's old lover)
• 최은연Mrs. Lee's housekeeper
• 남양일Pharmacy clerk

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