On a stormy night, No Jung Ui disappears and leaves her last will behind. Kim Hyun Soo is about to return to work as a detective after taking a long break from her job. Before her official return, Kim Hyun Soo’s boss assigns her to investigate No Jung Ui’s case. No Jung Ui was also a witness to a criminal case. Kim Hyun Soo meets with the ex-detectives who was in charge of protecting No Jung Ui and her family. She also meets with a local island resident (Lee Jung-Eun), who was the last person to see No Jung Ui.
Month: May 2021
Forgotten
Jin Seok, a young man, moves to a new house with his mother, father, and older brother Yoo Seok. Things seem off to Jin Seok in their new home. One rainy night he witnesses the abduction of Yoo Seok, being dragged into a car. Nineteen days pass and suddenly, Yoo Seok returns. Jin Seok begins noticing discrepancies in his family’s personality. He then realizes that they are not his family at all, but people pretending to be his family. He escapes the house and goes to the police. When he tells them he is 21 years old, the officer, skeptical, asks him what year it is. He replies that it’s 1997; the officer reveals that it is actually 2017. Jin is, in fact, 41 years old.
The Swordsman
House of the Disappeared
25 years ago, Kang Mi Hee was an ordinary housewife, married to Chul Joong with a son. Suddenly, her husband died and her son went missing. This all took place at their house. Kang Mi Hee was imprisoned for 25 years. She is released from prison and goes back to the home where everything took place.
Burning
An aspiring young novelist, Lee Jong su performs odd jobs in Paju. One day he runs into Shin Hae Mi, a childhood neighbor and classmate, at a promotion at which he is making a delivery. Jong Su initially does not remember her, but Shin Hae Mi tells him she had plastic surgery. Jong Su then remembers and gives her a pink watch that he won at the promotion. Later, she tells him about her upcoming trip to Africa, and asks him to feed her cat, Boil, while she is away. Before Hae Mi’s departure, Jong Su’s father, a cattle farmer, got tangled in disagreeable legal affairs, and Jong Su had to return to the farm. Jong Su passes by Hae Mi’s apartment, where he receives instructions about feeding the cat. Later, they have sex in Hae Mi’s apartment.
The Witch: Part 1. The Subversion
A young girl escapes from a mysterious laboratory after a violent incident that leaves many dead. Two members that run the lab, Dr. Baek and Mr. Choi, consider her dead. The girl collapses on a farm, where she is discovered by the owner, Mrs. Goo. & Mr. Goo. His wife nurses the girl back to health and adopts her.
Empire Of Lust
Kim Min Jae, is a brilliant general who’s distinguished himself by protecting the borders of the recently established Joseon dynasty. He keeps a close eye on Yi Bang Won, the fifth son of King Taejo, whom he believes has ambitions of seizing the throne. Jin, is Kim Min-Jae’s son and the King’s son-in-law. Due to his position as the King’s son-in-law, he is unable to take part in politics and only seeks out pleasure. Yi Bang Won was instrumental in helping his father overthrow the Goryeo dynasty and founding Joseon, but was passed over when Taejo chose his successor. Meanwhile, Kim Min Jae falls in love for the first time with a gisaeng named Ka Hee, whom he takes as his concubine, not realizing that she aims to carry out a vendetta against him.
After My Death
When her missing classmate and close friend Kyung Min is suspected of committing suicide, Young Hee becomes the prime suspect because she was the last one seen with Kyung Min on the night of her disappearance. Young Hee faces accusations from Kyung Min’s mother as well as her quick-to-condemn classmates. She insists on her innocence and tries to find out the truth on her own. When the school and her family offer her no support with the bullying she is experiencing, she decides to commit suicide herself.
Rampant
In the Joseon dynasty, King Lee Jo is viewed as overly deferential to the nearby Qing dynasty of China. His son, Crown Prince Lee Young, plots to buy European arquebuses to drive away the Qing. The plot is exposed by War Minister Kim Ja Joon, who holds influence over the king and frames it as a rebellion. Kim meets the Europeans and learns that they have brought zombies (called “night demons”). The crown prince commits suicide as penance so that his subordinates will be spared. Joseon forces destroy the European ship and retrieve the arquebuses, but a Joseon soldier is bitten by a zombie. He returns to his village, where he turns and spreads the infection. The zombies crave human meat and blood, are attracted by sounds, repelled by sunlight, and are stopped by decapitation or piercing of the heart.
Monstrum
Set in 1527 during King Jungjong’s reign where plague is spreading in Joseon and rumors are rife that a mysterious vicious creature called “Monstrum” is roaming around the country.