A Returned Man

Directed by Kim Soo-yong (김수용)

Written by Lim Hee-jae (임희재)

91min | Release date in South Korea: 1960/10/14

Synopsis
Park Nam-ho (Kim Jin-kyu) works at a Japanese pharmaceutical company and lives happily with his wife, Kyeong-hee (Choi Eun-hee), in a house filled with beautiful white roses. Not long after hearing the wonderful news that his wife is pregnant, Park Nam-ho is drafted into the war in the Pacific. Posted in the Gwandong army, he survives the battle, though his face is burned. Back home, Kyeong-hee receives a telegram stating that her husband is dead. When she gives birth to their son, Cheol-soo (Nam Yang-il), she goes to live in Seoul. When Nam-ho comes back to the country, he doesn't go to his wife, but rather goes to live in his hometown. On his way home, he encounters a child whose mother is dead, and takes her in as his own daughter. As his daughter, Park Pyeong-suk (Eom Aeng-ran), enters university in Seoul on a scholarship, Nam-ho joins a pharmaceutical company thanks to his friend (Heo Jang-gang). Pyeong-suk and Cheol-soo meet by chance and begin to have feelings for each other. When the president of the pharmaceutical company (Lee Min) holds a party commemorating a pending patent and invites Nam-ho, Kyeong-hee, who is now the wife of the president, runs into Nam-ho at the party, and she tells him that Cheol-soo is his son. When Nam-ho participates in the April 19 Revolution, he finds Cheol-soo injured and brings him to the hospital and tells his family. Nam-ho leaves, saying that everyone would be happier if he were to disappear. With that, he gloomily walks away.

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