Movies: Kim Ja-young

A middle-aged lady, Myung-ja becomes one of the candidates for an amateur swimming competition. Myung-ja doesn’t want to let a teenage girl, Ji-gyu get the chance....

A woman moves into an apartment house with her daughter. But her daughter begins to be haunted by a mysterious ghost on a hidden floor....

On one of the dog days of summer, Jae-ha works at Samgye-tang (chicken soup) restaurant as a day laborer instead of her mother, who died of a stroke. There, through her mother’s co-workers, Jae-ha gets to know new aspects of her mother that she did n...

On a winter morning on the way to work, Kiyoung finds Gilho sleeping on the wooden bench in front of his house. Gilho is a teenager who has run away from home because he can no longer face the domestic violence he suffers there. Kiyoung lets Gilho st...

Hae-jin, 29, struggles to adapt to life in Seoul and returns to her hometown of Jeju. There, she reunites with her mother, Ok-ran, and her grandmother, Kang-ja, who has spent her life as a haenyeo. Hae-jin decides to become a haenyeo, but Ok-ran stro...

The film portrays the anguish of an abandoned person and yet focuses on the process in which she grows more conscious of her true self. As she handles the foul giblets of slaughtered pigs, Sarah gets to realize that her real name is Jeong-ja. Every t...

Jeong-Woo is sent to a sanitarium deep in the mountains to overcome his alcoholism. There he meets a young nun named Maria who has a special ability to see inside people. In this isolated sanitarium Maria is the only person who seems to care for him ...

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A love for a cousin, deeply engraved in childhood. Twelve years later, a stopped heart begins to beat again....

In the family dinner time, mercilessly following the mother-in-law and wife's chatter, the new groom becomes confused. How to deal with violence....

Jungnam, who is hospitalized, meets Yeonsu, who likes the same TV drama as she does. The two are pushed out of the patient room, due to an argument over TV show channels. They develop a friendship as they watch their favorite TV drama together in the...

Jeong-yeon decides to celebrate her 60th birthday by visiting her daughter who’s been married and living in Japan. At her arrival, Jeong-yeon is greeted not by her daughter but instead by her young granddaughter, Uekusa An....

After the reserve force training, Jun-Hong is craving for jokbal from his ex-girlfriend's restaurant. First time in five years, he visits Mi-ran's jokbal restaurant and meets the uncomfortable ones....

The law against coffee threatens to close down Ju-won’s coffee shop. Ju-won starts a movement against Kim’s family and big bro. The novel idea behind the plot along with its female hero stand out in this film....

Bok-soon, a Jeju Island native, lives alone in her old house, as all her grown-up children are now settled on the mainland. She is excited to know that her children, who have not come home for a while, are coming back for her birthday. She prepares f...

Eunsoo, who lost her mother, starts searching for her solely based on her memories....

Yuri heads to the victim's house for a traffic accident settlement. Victim Kihyun has something he wants to say to Yuri, but she remains silent. Just before signing the documents, Kihyun shocks everyone by committing suicide....

Rapidly advancing self-driving technology could put couriers out of work. In order to save her son's job, Mi-sook takes action....