Dongsimcho

Jul 9, 1959

2h 6m

★ 4.0

Overview

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.

Genres

Drama

Romance

Production Companies

Korean Films Co.

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Cast

Lee Sook-hee

Choi Eun-hee

Oh Kyung-hee

Um Aing-ran

Kim Sang-gyu

Kim Jin-kyu

Mrs. Kim (Sister of Sang-gyu)

Ju Jeung-nyeo

Han Ki-cheol (Sang-gyu's friend)

Kim Seok-hun

Chairman (President of publishing company)

Kim Dong-won

Mrs. Park (Mother of Okju)

Han Eun-jin

Ok-joo Lee (Sang-gyu's fiancé)

Do Kum-bong

Busan President Kim (Trader)

Kim Seung-ho

Shin Dong-il (President of a securities company)

Lee Min

Bokdeokbang owner

Ju Seon-tae

Mrs. Lee

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