Dongshimcho
Released: July 9, 1959Runtime: 126 minLanguage: KO
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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Choi Eun Hie
as Lee Sook-hee
Aeng Ran Eom
as Kyung-hee
Kim Jin Kyu
as Kim Sang-gyu
Jeung Nyeo Ju
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Seok Hun Kim
as Sang-gyu's friend Han Gi-cheol
Kim Dong Won
as Company Chairman Lee
Eun Jin Han
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Kum Bong Do
as Their daughter Ok-joo
Seung Ho Kim
as Mr. Kim from Busan
Min Lee
as Shin Dong-il
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