- Lee Jung-won leads a failed couop in 1884 and then flees for his life to Japan. He returns to Korea years later after conspiring with the Japanese government to kill the queen of Korea and pave the way for Japanese occupation which would last until the end of World War II.
- When King Danjong proves incompetant in dealing with the affairs of state, a power struggle erupts within his family to see who can dethrone him and sieze control of the kingdom.
- Jin and Min, experts at fighting, get involved with a gang of smugglers. Min recognizes the nature of their activities and makes a break from the group, eventually establishing an orphanage. Jin, on the other hand, finds himself getting deeply involved with crime until it finally leads to murder.
- A young prostitute falls in love with with a man from a respectable house and the two move in together. But on hearing the objections to this situation raised by his family, the woman makes up her mind to leave him.
- Won-seok, the laundrette owner passes by Soo-jeong, who seems to be deep in though on a park bench one day but doesn't think much about it and has a good time with his girlfriend Yoo-jin when he gets a call from a customer. He is on the way back to his store and sees Soo-jeong again in front of his house. Pulled by a s…
- A propaganda flick aimed at curbing the increase of smuggling by growing organised crime following the Korean War. Here, a groups of gangsters' efforts at operating a smuggling organization out of a southern port are doomed to failure thanks to the efforts of local police
- In 1946, diver Hwang Jun is asked to retrieve a shipment of gold that was sunk with a transport ship. Agents from Japan try to steal the gold but fail in their first attempt. Years later, the same agents take Hwang Jun's family hostage in an effort to recruit his aid
- The ladies of the court enjoy of life of luxury, but boredom and loneliness cause them to scheme against one another.
