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Good evening viewers and studio audience.

Today, we have invited some scholars

for an open discussion on the serious problems of overpopulation

we face today.

First, a question for a professor of Biology.

725 rats are born per rat every year.

l guess rats need population control more than we do.

However, when there's a shortage of food,

rats eat each other to avoid dying out.

Well, people should do it, too!

How about a comment from a professor of history?

ln the past, many populations faced near annihilation

during times of famine and war.

So it used to be customary for parents over seventy

years old to be carried up to top of the mountain to die.

Now, what are your thoughts?

You look over seventy. lf you lived in those days,

you would have been abandoned in the mountains by now!

Hush! l was destined to live a hundred years. lt says so on my palm.

At this rate, we'll never achieve population control!

Goryeojang Directed by Kim Ki-young, 1963

Kim Jin Gyu, Kim Bo Ae, Ju Jeung-nyeo

Kim Dong Won, Lee Ye Chun, Park Am

Jeon Ok, Seok Geum Seong Go Seon Ae, Wang Sook Rang

Choe Sam, Dok Go Seong, Cho Seok Geun Go Seol Bong, Park Go Sang

Song Uk, Jeong Min, Ji Bang Ryeol lm Un Hak, Jeon Ye Chul

Kim Sa Seong, Kim Gyeong Tae Lee Gwang Gi, Ahn Sang Gong, Choe Du Seok

Yu Cheon Su, Lee Sang Sa, Noh Bong Ho Heo Won Gyu, Yu Soon Cheol

Park Gi Beom, Yu Man Seon, Park Tae Chul, Lee Yong Su, Lee Cheon Seok

Kim Dong Un, Choe ll, Gang Mo, Jang Seong Guk, Kim Seok Gi

Jeon Young Seon, Kim So Mi, Nah Jeong Ok Choe Heung Sook, Jeong Gyeong Hee

Go Min Ok, Kim Jong Hee, Kim Jeong Yeon, Guk Hyo, Choe ln Seon

Produced by Kim Yeong Cheol, Song Seon Geun

Executive Directors Choe Yeol, Noh Dong Jin, Yeo Oon Ho

Lighting Seo Byeong Su, Kim Sang Bae Gwak Won Bok, Kim Yu Jong

Assistant Directors Han Min, Park Jun Hwal Kim Hee Rim, Shin Jeong Sik

Cinematopography Kim Deok Jin, Ahn Sang ll, Yu Yeong Jo

Lee Seung Un, Choe Seung Hak, Hong Soon Rae

Production Design Park Seok ln, Kim Hyun Gyun

Miniature Model Kim Wan Taek, Kim Hak Hyeon

Stills Yang Jae Gu Documentation Lee Ga Shin

Music by Han Sang Gi Special Effects Lee Sang Man Sound Recording Jeong Gi Chang

Directed by Kim Ki-Young

Yaha, l have come at last!

Taesan, a tall mountain! Taehasu, a deep sea!

l drifted tens of millions of miles in the wind and at last

l have come to respond to the call of the Mountain Spirit and Earth Spirit.

Leave your offering here for a good marriage!

This Ancient Tree is the keeper of this village!

The tree has uncovered every theft, adultery, and murder

and all the perpetrators have been hanged here!

Do you remember how much it cost me when l married you?

Children from your former wife have ruined me! They chased me away!

l am bankrupt after four marriages. Come along!

You will pay for getting rid of me!

May l be struck with lightning if l'm wrong!

Anyone home?

What on earth!

Don't be alarmed.

You are the fifth daughter-in-law.

The others didn't even last three days in this house.

He has ten children by his former wives.

Mother, let me bow to you.

You have a new brother now.

Guryong, you are my son now. Bow to me and call me father.

Father.

Bastard, what gives you the right to call him father? Beat him up!

Stop it, boys! Stop it, l say!

The soil here has turned into sand.

Many starve to death during famines.

We can't eat to our hearts' content.

That is true everywhere. lt is a sin to be full.

Ture.

Mama, will they feed us tomorrow?

Mama got married so that you will not go hungry.

For that, you mustn't sleep with me from now on, okay?

Okay.

ldiot, can't even eat with his own two hands?

He's acting like a retard.

Ooh, this is a great chi. l can't possibly say.

l plan to pass on the housework to my new daughter-in-law.

l've asked many times and my fortuneteller keeps telling me

that the ten brothers will die at the hands of the new son.

Those who harm me must get what they deserve.

The ten brothers will hang from the Ancient Tree some day!

l'm scared. l'm scared.

To be a part of the village, you must follow tradition.

Whoever turns seventy must pass the rice bowl to the next generation

and be carried up on the son's back to the Sacred Peak to die.

One can die comfortably up in the Sacred Peak.

Overnight, your flesh and spirit rise up to the heavens, leaving just the bones.

l am already seventy. l stayed longer because there was no daughter-in-law.

The gods must be angry.

When you are seventy, you must go up the mountain, too.

l must ask you for one last favor.

The shaman's prediction worries me...

Grandma! Grandma! Grandma!

Grandma! Grandma! Grandma!

Grandma's probably all bones by now.

They say if you pray really hard before you die up there,

The Divine Spirit grants you one wish.

Grandma said she'll pray for us so the bastard won't kill us all.

Shut up!

Mom, can l have a potato?

No. lt's unfair to your brothers.

But l lit the fire for you.

All right. Make sure they don't see you.

Okay.

Here you go.

That bastard !

Her son's the only one with a mouth?

They will starve us all to death!

Drag him out to the backyard!

Eat quickly, child.

Ah, it's hot.

Your balls will fall off if you play in the kitchen. Open your mouth.

l smell potato!

Come here. You know what these are?

They are tiger teeth. You want these?

Yes.

lf you can catch us, they're yours. Are you in?

Yes.

Blindfold him.

Now clap!

Here! We're over here! l'm right here!

Catch me if you can! We're over here!

Guryong!

Who put the snake there?

lt was me.

You rascal!

Grandma went to the shaman and she said that Guryong was going to kill us all!

What?

Never mind. He's so crazy about that woman he doesn't care if we live or die!

Cheol handles snakes better than a snake charmer.

l read his fortune. This one's destined to kill all his stepbrothers.

Please save my son.

l've lost my husband and five sons in the last famine.

All people follow their own destinies.

Let's send the dead spirits on to the next world.

Rice cakes!

Don't eat it. lt's for the ghosts.

Guryong.

Mom, l don't care if we starve. Let's leave.

Yes, let's leave. lf you can stand hunger, you're not afraid of anything.

The shaman said Guryong's strong chi will kill off everyone else to survive.

We should go. Give us a little piece of land to live on.

He's maimed, and all for a few bowls of rice!

Father! Father!

Go away!

Father! Father!

Get away from me!

Father!

You scoundrels!

After twenty years

Would you like some water?

Farming must be twice as hard for you.

l'm a cripple, but l've managed to get a house and some land.

What about a woman?

l need a short one.

A cow gives birth to one calf at a time, but rats can have ten.

Why don't you marry a hen? She'll lay you 365 eggs a year.

Meet me later?

And ruin myself?

Guryong.

Yes?

lf you're meeting Gannan today, make sure you wet this towel and bring it back.

Don't let this one go. No woman will ever want a cripple.

Here.

l have to go. Mama says Guryong's a poor thing.

Life's hard enough even with all limbs working fine.

Don't look at my legs when you talk.

l have nothing against it. lt's not that l don't like it.

Gannan, shh...

Mama says if you do it in the grass you'll have a child of a snake.

Shh, Gannan.

Mama says if Guryong asks to sleep with you, tell him it's an unlucky period.

Mama says Guryong's a widow's son and needs to take care of his mama.

Don't talk about mother.

Guryong's about to get married, and you're just laying there?

The ten brothers are still bachelors!

l married five times without anyone's help!

We'll get the provisions for marriage if we take back the land we gave Guryong.

We lost that land to him because of the snake bite!

lf we lost it, we should get it back!

Brother.

Guryong dug up a ginseng root at Cloud Rock!

That rascal! He's found his marriage provisions.

Bow.

The groom bowed first!

For heaven's sake, this is too embarrassing. He's pathetic!

A man can make mistakes every once in a while!

But if a bride farts while bowing, she is not to be forgiven!

Hush! Bow, now.

Just think of a man as a large python.

Even if it's terrifying, or if it gives you gooseflesh,

or if it tickles, you have to hold it all in.

Here, look. This is a man.

Feed my son-in-law plenty of pork!

Boars have great stamina! They bear ten suckling at a time.

That's fine, but having many babies is not always a good thing.

Hush!

Okay, let's send him into the bride's room.

lf we keep him too long, he might have a little accident outside the gates.

Here we go.

Here he comes, here he comes. Here comes the large python.

Finished! My daughter it finished!

lt is her fate.

Child! Give me the headdress and the gown.

They were rented.

ln-law, have a drink.

l was afraid l couldn't marry off a son raised by a widow.

This is all thanks to the Divine Spirit.

My only child marrying a cripple! The Divine Spirit can be this cruel.

Here you go.

What? What's the matter?

What is it?

She says she'll never live with a cripple.

That rascal has knocked her out five times!

That shrew! She must be a mute!

Your son's a cripple!

My son may be a cripple, but he can walk!

Your daughter can't spit out even a single word!

Matchmaker, say something!

Peas go with peas, beans go with beans.

They're both disabled. They are a match made in heaven.

That crook! l could live with one-eyed or pock-armed person, but never a mute!

lf you can't hear, you're the same as a cow or a horse!

Guryong, let's go.

Are you abandoning my daughter?

What about my son's lost appetite?

What did you just say?

What the...

Oh no, the bride needs to take a piss.

Tell her to hold it in.

Mutes are stubborn.

What on earth is this?

How will you live with a girl who refuses to eat?

The handicapped must teach the handicapped how to survive.

Guryong ties up his bride and feeds her.

She said she'd sooner die than live with a cripple.

Go untie her and bring her over here.

lf we violate her, the villagers will hang us.

We're not violating her. We'll trade her for the land document.

let's go, hurry up!

Just die! die!

You Basterd!

Father lent you this land. lt's time we got it back.

According to the land document, it's ours.

Trade in the land document for your new wife.

Never!

Did you bring the land document?

l heard rumors your brothers violated the new wife.

She ran away, and we kept her at our house.

Are you aware that the penalty for violating another's wife is

hanging on the Ancient Tree at the shaman's place?

We did no such thing. l swear on this neck.

You said you'll hang?

Why don't you ask her?

Mutes can't talk, but they can gesture. Those villains!

What happened?

Quickly.

Who? And?

And what happened?

The shaman was right. l will have to kill three people.

l've decided to forget about this incident.

lf l'm to forgive and live in this village, l can't kill three people.

Give me the land document instead!

You beast! You did it, too, didn't you? You son of a bitch!

Since things have turned out this way, perhaps we should send the mute home?

lf a woman marries and divorces a cripple, that's the end of her life.

ln that case, close your eyes when you plant your seeds.

lf you plant beans in a field, you get beans.

lf you plant buckwheat, you get buckwheat.

Strange. Someone throws a pebble here every night.

Maybe a virgin from the village wants to see you

Look. There are no virgins in this village.

Huh? Who is it?

Give us the mute!

Where is she?

Give us the mute, or we'll burn your house down.

Look at this knife!

What can we do?

She can't hear anyone or say anything.

She's just a bit pigheaded.

Her crime was being born a mute.

She died thinking she deserves it because she's a mute.

Never bother me again.

After fifteen years

Three years of draught, and l'll die of thirst before l die of hunger.

l bought this water from the ten brothers in exchange for potatoes.

Potatoes.

Potatoes.

We've had three years of famine. We don't have a single potato left.

Our house is the only one in the village with a well.

You should share.

Nonsense!

Has anyone in this village ever given us a sip of water?

Still, have mercy.

Get out of the way!

What's all this? Quiet, all of you!

She did not fall to her death. She died of starvation.

Anyone dare argue with me?

Has anyone ever given us a single potato?

Give her a sip of water for the last time.

Show everyone we are good people.

Shit, we can't get money for water anymore.

Let's get rid of the freeloader before we starve.

Send father up to the mountain

You fools, l don't even drink water.

lf you go up the mountain you won't even have to.

lf l have to die, l'll die here. l'm not going up the mountain.

Don't make a mockery of our family. Just give up your rice bowl for us.

How dare you!

Father, you're being unreasonable.

How about this?

We'll spin a coin and if it's tails you go up the mountain.

Don't worry father. The Divine Spirit will protect you.

lt's heads! Look! The Divine Spirit is on your side!

Don't put too much faith in the Divine Spirit.

We'll get tails before ten days pass.

lf l have this many potatoes, l can buy all the land in the village.

Of course, l'll only save whatever's leftover after you've had your fill.

You mustn't seize other people's land for cheap.

These potatoes are expensive!

They were grown by the damned cripple who worked ten, twenty times harder to produce.

l can't sell that piece of land for two sacks of potatoes!

lt's better than starving to death!

You could be a little kinder at times like these!

Forget it! Don't expect kindness from a cripple! Will you or will you not sell?

Crook.

Grandma! Grandma!

Mother!

What brings you here?

The children are about to starve to death! l came hoping you could help us.

There's nothing to drink in our village, let alone food.

Say hello. This is your Dear, here's mother.

Grandma, hello!

Dear, here's mother.

Mother-in-law, the children are about to die. Please feed them something.

Grandma, l'm hungry

Dear.

Where did grandpa hide the potatoes?

Doesn't matter. My nose will find them.

Quickly! Where is it?

Search over there.

lt's not here either.

lf l had known we would starve at my parents' house too,

l wouldn't have brought us all here.

Go borrow some potatoes.

Didn't Guryong have a thing for you?

l can't go there.

Our children are about to die. This is not the time to save face.

What if we can't find them? Where are they? Quick, find them!

Over here. lt's over here.

Look! Potatoes!

Dear, dear...

Children! You rascals! These are seed potatoes!

lf the draught ends, the two of us will die without the seed potatoes.

Stop! Stop!

Water... Mom, we have water!

Guryong, Gannan is here.

What do you want?

The children are about to die. She's here to borrow a sack of potatoes.

Where is your shame?

And it's not shameless for a cripple to ask for a woman with working limbs?

Guryong!

What? Cripple?

l hear you're buying land with potatoes. You're beating women now?

l'll loan you the potatoes.

l am also a mother who starved all her children, except one.

Let's go inside.

You promised you wouldn't come here.

Now that l've had my revenge, life has become so empty.

We're very lonely people.

We have no relatives, and we couldn't help anyone either.

l should have said this earlier, but won't you send me up to the mountain?

Mother.

lf l pray up in the mountain and it rains,

people will say there was once an old lady whose prayer was granted.

Mother, l live for you.

l know.

What else would a cripple like me live for?

What's going on?

You've found water in this well?

lf everyone digs a well, we can't sell our water anymore.

You said you wouldn't bother me anymore!

Get the corpse!

Let's go.

l hate grandma!

lsn't this the last of the loaned potatoes?

lf l die and you become a widow,

no one will marry you before the three-year mourning period ends.

You should remarry before l die.

Who'll take a woman with nine children?

Try Guryong. Convince him to take you in.

Do it before l die.

You can't drink that water.

Why not?

The ten brothers dropped a corpse in there.

l can stand hunger, but l can't stand the thirst.

Do you want some leftover potatoes? Let's go inside.

Are you sure it'll be okay?

Don't worry about Guryong.

l'm ashamed.

Go on.

A woman is never full.

When a woman is young, she's afraid of her in-laws.

When she has children, they eat everything.

When she's old, her stomach shrinks so she can't eat much.

l wish someone would buy my body.

Will you give us a child? l would like to raise one.

Send a girl. She'll be of help around the house.

They're all so young.

The younger the live-in bride, the better. lt's easier to teach her.

Would any of you leave to be a stepchild?

l'll give you these potatoes. You?

You? You? You?

l'll go.

You all call me pockface and treat me poorly. l'd rather go live there.

Here she is.

You won't miss home if you came to live with us?

A woman is not supposed to be homesick after she marries.

You are bright.

l am good at doing house chores and serving men.

Ok.

l've decided to take in a child.

You're a pockface.

l'm a pockface, but only a little bit.

He's the master of this house. Pay your respects.

Please keep me from going hungry, mister.

Forget it.

They already call this the freak house, and you brought in a pockface?

Damn.

Look! Mister's a cripple! Clip clop clip clop!

Here's your meal.

What are you looking at?

Mama always sat beside father during his meals.

ln case he chews on stone bits .

Try the vegetables. l made it.

lt's a bit bland. Maybe it's because the pockface made it.

A cripple picking on a pockface?

You're one to talk!

l envy Yeon-l since she can eat enough

She will bring us food without eating

There she comes

Mom, that stupid man told me not to eat much

Did he find out?

Don't worry. He can do nothing to me

Here you are

This is for your father / Okay

Delicious?

Here...

Help yourself

Our father will stop eating from now on

There's no son to feed his father among 10 sons

Even though you eat, you don't get younger, don't raise kids,

and don't change your destiny, father.

Let's lament about him, guys.

Oh, my father...

We have no potatoes left to buy land.

Gannan says she'll leave her husband if you'd feed her children.

We don't have enough for the two of us anymore.

When the rain comes and the famine is over,

you can't have Gannan. Not even if you have a mountain of potatoes.

l can't let you go hungry.

Take me up to the mountain.

Mother, parents come first and then wife and children.

What kind of a son chooses his wife over his mother?

Guryong. Guryong!

There's something you should know.

ln our village, we hang whoever steals someone else's wife.

My husband has decided to leave us

and return to town if somebody would look after the children.

Mom, whose clothes are these?

l'm making clothes for you to wear after l've gone up the mountain.

What?

Guryong, give me that hairpin on your head.

l hear that if women use men's hairpin, they can

conceive without sleeping with them. Here you go.

You have to drink this water, too.

What are you doing here?

l have a bellyache. l have a bellyache when l am pregnant

Your mother asked me not to miss the opportunity. She wanted a grandchild.

Mother! Mother!

Mother!

Mother!

He's such a good son. He's afraid he'll have to abandon me if he takes you in.

That's why he's against it. Being a good son is important,

but it is a great crime against the ancestors to discontinue the bloodline.

l might have to secretly leave for the mountain.

You have to take good care of him.

lf you serve him well, he'll soon get over the sorrow of being a cripple.

He wasn't born a cripple, so the child will be fine.

Mother.

Mother. Where is mother?

Did she sleep here last night?

She said you depend on her and don't wanna get married.

She left everything to me and set out for the mountain

to offer her body to the Divine Spirit.

What?

lt was your idea, wasn't it?

You talked her into leaving for my sake, didn't you?

You sent her off to the Divine Spirit!

No, no!

You thought the cripple would be desperate enough to abandon his mother for a woman?

What kind of an imbecile deserts his mother

to take care of nine children who belong to someone else?

Guryong, Guryong.

Mama, mama.

Why are you beating my mama?

All she wants is a few potatoes! You're beating her like a beast!

Don't hit her!

Shit!

Mongrel ! Swine ! Die!

Get out. l turned a blind eye when you stole potatoes from my hut,

and now you chase away an old woman to the mountain?

Mother.

We're ruined.

l can't steal to feed us all anymore.

Yeon, don't tell father that we took a beating. He'll be heartbroken.

lt will kill him if he finds out we got battered because of hunger.

Mother. Mother...

Mother.

Mother. Mother...

Don't come near me.

Don't think about saving your mother when you should be producing children with Gannan.

Mother, let's return to the village.

Even dogs and swine are slaughtered after they bear children.

lt's a sin for a man to not have children.

This is absurd. l can't exchange my own mother for a wife.

They say a mother is everything to a child. You are old and yet still a child.

We've been praying for three years and the famine hasn't ended.

The elderly have gone up to the mountain, but it won't rain.

lt is time we summon Saetaenim to reveal the transgressions.

What's Saetaenim?

lt's the spirit of a dead child.

Go buy a sacrificial child.

l'll buy one.

l can buy a child with a sack of potatoes.

Here.

Mama, l'm hungry.

Here, drink some water.

Soo! Soo!

l've come to buy a sacrificial child.

lt's a sin to starve your children to death.

l hear the pockfaced girl took a beating from Guryong.

lf she becomes Saetaenim, Guryong will surely be ruined.

Potatoes!

No! No! Shoo! Shoo!

Sell the pockfaced girl. lf you live another day,

you'll find another opportunity to live on.

Gather up the potatoes.

Lady, this is no time to be mourning over the dead child.

You should save what you have left.

You!

Didn't Guryong chase you from his house?

Pockface will always be taunted.

Pockface deserves to die.

Be a Saetaenim.

Go away, you pigs!

Uncle Guryong is waiting for us to starve and die.

Mama, l'm going to accept the potatoes from the shaman's house.

Yeon!

l don't care if l die as long as l don't starve to death.

Yeon!

l hate Uncle Guryong.

Yeon!

Here she comes.

l've come for the potatoes.

Bring the potatoes.

Yes.

Here.

You don't care if the shaman kills you?

Being hungry is worse than death.

l'm worried mother and father will forget about me

by the time they finish eating these potatoes.

l hear Gannan sold Yeon to the shaman

for potatoes rather than starving the other children .

The shaman has no potatoes.

They were the ten brothers'.

What?

l want to buy back Yeon . l'll give you ten sacks of potatoes.

The lives of the villagers are depending on Saetaenim.

lf you pull her out now, they'll come after you.

How do you catch a child's spirit?

lf you stab her with a bamboo needle, the spirit goes into the shaman.

Where will Saetaenim's spirit rest?

Not hell, not heaven, and not my house.

l want to stretch my legs and rest on the bull's eye of the shaman's fan.

Saetaenim, where will you go?

l shall visit the underworld,

read the Book of Fortunetelling and learn about people's fates.

l shall return stolen goods to the rightful owners.

The spirit crosses over! Pick with the fan!

Oh, she's coming

The offering! Something large to get her going!

Geumi Grandmother, you first.

l am now seventy.

lt is time for me to give myself up at the Sacred Peak,

yet my good son would not let me go. What should l do?

Saetaenim descends!

l have read the fate hidden in the Underworld!

lf you ascend the Sacred Peak on your good son's back,

nine spirits will gather rain and save your people!

Mother, l will not abandon you. Not even over my dead body.

All it takes is my life to save many others!

Saetaenim, l will gladly burn in hell for letting my children die,

but what will become of the remaining seven?

Your offering!

l can't even afford an offering for my own dead child!

Your offering!

l have seen! l have seen! l have read the fates!

Mother, dry your tears and hear your child's wishes!

Go to the house on the east side after midnight

and all your wishes will be granted.

Uncle Guryong, grant all my mother's wishes!

l shan't eat.

lt is a sin for an old, useless woman like me

to squander the gift of heaven while the young ones starve.

Yeon is a good girl.

We shouldn't have looked down on her for being a pockface.

The young child has told her mother to ask you for a favor.

You can't turn her down.

l was going to buy her back with some potatoes. Take them.

Take them.

lf l take them, l'll be selling Yeon twice.

Yeon's Saetaenim told me to entrust my body in your hands.

The starvation is making me dizzy.

l want to eat well from now on.

When you were a virgin, you ran away. You ran away all those years ago,

calling me a cripple. Look at you now.

Hush. Yeon might give you a child.

l will try to sculpt one who has your nose and eyes.

Hey, this way

Potatoes! Mine!

Ow, hot!

Stop right there.

Giving up your wife and children, and walking away?

Are you being compassionate?

What!

lf Guryong steals someone's wife and kills the husband,

we can hang the bitch and the bastard.

We want Guryong!

Look at this poor man.

He had his wife stolen and lost his life, too.

Guryong killed him!

l know nothing about this!

lsn't this your sickle?

This is Guryong's sickle!

lf we let this go,

the ten brothers can steal wives and kill their husbands, too!

Kill him! Kill him!

Hang the bitch and bastard!

Wait!

Hold on a second!

lf you let us live, we'll give you the land documents and potatoes!

Hang them!

lf we kill them, the potatoes and land documents will be ours.

Pull!

Guryong! Guryong!

Save my child! You can't kill an innocent person!

Shut up, hag!

With all these normal people starving to death, a cripple's death is no big deal.

lt was you ten brothers who turned Guryong into a cripple!

You hag!

Mother! Mother!

Guyrong! My son, Guryong! l will save you!

You old fox

My son. My son, Guryong. Will anyone save my son?

Shaman! Didn't saetaenim tell us yesterday that it would rain

if this old lady is sent up the mountain?

A villain who has violated someone else's wife

and killed the husband must be punished by death!

lf you send this old crone up the mountain on my son's back,

l'll make it rain and the village will be prosperous again.

Please? Shaman, please save him.

Whatever it takes for the rain to come.

lf you want to save your son, you'll pray for rain with your sincerest heart.

Yes.

lt is not going to rain!

Bring the back rack! lf it doesn't rain, you may kill him!

Bring it over!

Cut him loose.

Mother.

Guyrong.

Mother, please forgive your son.

For sacrificing you for my crime! l am happy to do anything for you.

l was happy to be in pain when you were born,

and l was happy to watch you grow.

l am likewise happy to go up the mountain on your back.

God, here we go again.

Come on. We must return before sundown.

We can rest if you're tired.

lt's nothing compared to dying.

l was angry then.

l remarried to feed you, but turned you into a cripple instead.

Perhaps there is no joy in life.

But raising you gave me joy.

l used to stay up at night watching you sleep.

Because you didn't get married,

l was able to look after you until l turned seventy.

l am lucky for a mother.

Being on your back makes me drowsy, like a child.

Do you remember the lullaby you used to sing?

Sing it.

My mother used to sing this to me.

When l die, my mother will disappear without a trace from this world!

What should we do?

Plod, plod, wanderer. To where do you plod crying?

To where my mother lies sleeping Once more to be her suckling.

Hang on tight, mother.

There's no turning back now.

l'm worried that you won't be able to return.

This is no time to be worrying about me, mother.

You're my only worry in the world.

Do not go. l'll give you gold. Do not go. l'll give you silver.

Don't want no gold, Don't want no silver. l'll go where my mother lies sleeping

Be careful.

Uncle!

Geon! Geon!

Here.

Guryong, let me see your face one last time.

With your beard grown, you look just like your father.

Your father never had a kind word for me since the day we met,

and he died without a word.

Be good to Gannan.

A woman has no one to trust but her husband.

Here. Get up.

Guryong.

Take care of yourself after you marry.

You can't make several children at a time.

lf you try too hard to make up for lost time, you'll wear yourself out.

Now, go!

Guryong.

Can't you walk properly just this once?

l think your heart is more crippled than your body.

Walk straight. Go ahead.

Guryong, l got dust in my eye! Can't you get it out before you go?

There. You're going blind, too.

You don't have a lot of time to live. Have a good life with Gannan.

There's no reason why a cripple can't live as well as others.

Go.

Guryong! l am scared! lt's cold!

l am scared of dying alone on a mountain peak!

l want to live.

lt seems like only yesterday when l was six and in my mother's arms!

Guryong! l want to live!

You only live once! The life my mother gave me,

l want it to go on for a hundred, two hundred years!

What did l just say?

First the eyes, then the ears, and now my head. l must be going mad.

l must pray. l must pray to the Divine Spirit for rain.

Go! The Divine Spirit is coming. You ungrateful child, go!

Don't look back!

Gu... Gu...

Uncle, the back rack.

lt's okay. Let's go.

Get the back rack. l know the way now,

so l can take you up here when you're old.

Mother, Geon says l should get the back rack.

He's going to abandon me here when l'm old.

You shouldn't come here. You'll end up resenting your child for deserting you.

Mother!

Go! A mother can't say her last prayer properly

with her son lingering before her eyes.

Mother.

What now?

Let me get the dust out of your eye again.

You got itjust now.

Didn't you say you were cold?

Take my coat. Here.

How can a mother's heart warm up wearing her son's coat?

The Divine Spirit won't even look at a mother

who's wearing her son's coat. He'll say she's rotten.

Here. Take it with you.

Guryong.

lf l see the Divine Spirit later, l'll ask about your foot

l'll ask him to fix your foot.

Grandma...

Uncle. Uncle. Grandma.

Just a little more, uncle.

l should rot in hell.

lf you fall, l fall too!

Divine Spirit! Send us rain!

Let the good and bad all prosper! Let it rain! Let it rain!

Rain! Grandma made it rain!

You're right!

Rain!

Mother!

Rain! Rain!

Rain!

Don't leave. When Guryong returns, you will all die.

The Divine Spirit is on his side.

This is our time.

You will die!

Shut up!

You can't pay for adultery with rain.

You will die.

We will fight. Hang Gannan!

Okay!

You will die.

Uncle.

Oh, no.

The ten brothers killed her.

Give me your axe. l'll put a charm on it.

You will win. The Divine Spirit will avenge her death.

Quickly, go!

You swine, you've come to die?

You are the ones who'll die.

You'll die stricken with fear like a bird in front of a snake.

You can't take nine of us!

The shaman has spoken! You will die at my bare fists,

and you will harm no one with your swords!

Lies!

For the past thirty years, you've been living in fear

that l would kill you, And l have been plotting my revenge!

Well, here's my chance.

Die!

Die!

Don't kill any more people!

We're not bad people! We're not bad people!

lt's your fate! The shaman said things will not come to an end

Until l kill you all! lt was the shaman's idea!

lt's the shaman who has turned us into enemies!

The shaman said things will not come to an end until l kill you all!

No, No, No.

We're brothers! We used to live under the same roof!

My leg...

The shaman...

Mother?

The shaman...

The mute?

The shaman...

You...

The shaman...

You destroyed everything that belonged to me!

No, we must call each other brothers!

Brother!

Brother!

Brother!

Did you take care of them all?

My divination is never wrong.

There are two things this village must do without.

One is the shaman, and the other is the Ancient Tree.

What? The gods will strike you!

Silence! You've killed too many at this rotting old tree!

This tree has been guarding the village!

lt killed three people!

The tree kept evil out!

lt kept the small evil out and let the big ones in!

Aren't you afraid of the Divine Spirit?

The Divine Spirit watches and does nothing!

When this tree down, the Divine Spirit will also die

Die! Die!

Die! Die!

Who will call Yeon's saetaenim?

We don't have to call her. Yeon's spirit will go free now.

How will we live?

Let's go plant seeds.

lf there's someone to teach us, we can learn to grow anything.

We can live off the things we grow. Let's go.

The End