After graduating from university, Il-ryeong goes back to his hometown, a small village beside the Nakdong River. Ok-nam is his lover and a teacher in his hometown. He cooperates with her in order to enlighten the people and to improve the village. Nakdong River is, along with The Street of Sun (1952) and A Bouquet of Thirty Million People (1951), one of the important films made during the Korean War that the Korean Film Archive has rediscovered and made available to the public.

Ode to My Father
2014
7.4/10

Pork Chop Hill
1959
6.7/10

Serve the People
2022
6.5/10

The Front Line
2011
7.2/10

Address Unknown
2001
7.1/10

Three Wishes
1995
6.3/10

Battle of Jangsari
2019
6.8/10

71: Into the Fire
2010
7.5/10

Devotion
2022
7.1/10

The Last Princess
2016
6.7/10

The Battleship Island
2017
7.2/10

My Way
2011
7.9/10

Hill of Freedom
2014
6.6/10

Operation Chromite
2016
5.8/10

Everyone Is There
2020
8.1/10

Men in War
1957
6.7/10

Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War
2004
8.0/10

Idol Seungha's R-Rated Film Shooting
2021
6.5/10

Joint Security Area
2000
7.8/10

Return
2011
6.4/10
The Martyrs
1965
7/10