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A Woman Who Draws Cranes

8.0 / 10 · 1 votes
1979

Headmaster Yoon at Neungkol has four sons. The eldest son named Dong-Cheol dies at the war. Yoon adopts Yuriko, a Japanese orphan, as his daughter at 1945 Liberation. The second son named Dong-Min devotes himself to the communist ideology to quarrel with his father with the help of Won-Kyu. One day Yoon is killed with rifles by Won-Kyu, and Yun's wife adopts Keun-Shik, Won-Kyu's son, as her son. At the occurrence of 1950 Korean War, the third son named Dong-Seok becomes a policeman. The youngest son named Dong-Kuk and Keun-Shik escape to Pusan. Dong-Kuk becomes a South Korea Army's soldier, while Keun-Shik becomes a smuggler. Dong-Min is killed on the charge of a communist, while Keun-Shik becomes a millionaire. Dong-Seok kills himself at 1961 students revolution, while Keun-Shik is put in jail in 1962 military revolution.

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