Dongsimcho (1959)

ALL 07/09/1959 (ko) Drama, Romance 126 Min
  • Release
    07/09/1959
  • Production
    Korean Films Co.
  • Rotten tomato
    40%
  • Original title
    동심초
  • Original language
    ko
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

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.

  1. Shin Sang-ok

    Director

  2. Nam-sa Jo

    Story

  3. Young-hee Kim

    Editor



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Casts

  1. Choi Eun-hee

    Lee Sook-hee

  2. Um Aing-ran

    Oh Kyung-hee

  3. Kim Jin-kyu

    Kim Sang-gyu

  4. Ju Jeung-nyeo

    Mrs. Kim (Sister of Sang-gyu)

  5. Kim Seok-hun

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

  6. Kim Dong-won

    Chairman (President of publishing company)

  7. Han Eun-jin

    Mrs. Park (Mother of Okju)

  8. Do Kum-bong

    Ok-joo Lee (Sang-gyu's fiancé)

  9. Kim Seung-ho

    Busan President Kim (Trader)

  10. Lee Min

    Shin Dong-il (President of a securities company)

  11. Ju Seon-tae

    Bokdeokbang owner

  12. Seo Wol-yeong

    Mrs. Lee

  13. Yang Im

    Miss Song (Securities Company employee)

  14. Jeong Yeon-ja

    Bogja (Shin Dong-il's old lover)

  15. Choe Eun-yeon

    Mrs. Lee's housekeeper

  16. Nam Yang-il

    Pharmacy clerk

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 16 , Crews : 13

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Dongsimcho (1959) 126 Min

ALL 07/09/1959 (ko)
Drama, Romance
  • Release 07/09/1959
  • Production
    Korean Films Co.
  • Original title 동심초
  • ko
  • Revenue0.00

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.

  1. Shin Sang-ok

    Director

  2. Nam-sa Jo

    Story

  3. Young-hee Kim

    Editor

  4. Park Un-sam, Lee Sang-cheol

    Producer