Dongsimcho (동심초) 64 years old

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.

Credits

Dongsimcho Cast

Name Character
Jung Jae-young He was 11, now 53 years old
Kim Dong-won He was 4, 51 years old when he died
Kim Jin-kyu He was 25, 13 years old when he died as Kim Sang-gyu
Kim Seok-hun He was 30, now 95 years old
Ju Jeung-nyeo
Choi Eun-hee She was 32, 91 years old when she died as Lee Sook-hee

Dongsimcho Crew

Name Department
Shin Sang-ok as Director. He was 32 (79) years old when He died Directing
Dongsimcho poster
Dongsimcho (64 years)

  • Release day: Thursday, July 09, 1959
  • Runtime: 126 minutes