Two traditional stories. In the first, a girl marries the bravest man in the village so she can send him into a monster's lair to collect an mystic herb which can save her father's life. In the second story, even death cannot prevent a devoted wife from helping in her husband's success.

英友和他的朋友们在李成浩老师的带领下组建了学生独立团，专门捣毁日本人的主要设施。为了躲避日军的追击，他们不得不告别家人和爱人，远渡豆满江，投奔身在满洲里的同志。英友得知妻子英爱已身怀有孕，仍决定毅然离开。英爱的舅舅为了取得矿山方面的利益把英爱一直携带在身边的学生独立团的照片交给了日本人。英友母亲在日军的严刑拷打下离开人世，英友认定是英爱背叛了自己，不禁愤怒。日军宪兵部队队长喜欢独立团成员昌焕的妻子妍花。妍花利用该队长对自己的贪恋之心为丈夫窃取情报，提供给学生独立团。英友一行和昌焕一行在豆满江山麓汇合。在敌人猛烈的围追堵截下，独立团的成员不断倒下。英爱为了消除英友对自己的误会，偷了舅舅的钱追随英友而去，并最终击毙了追赶上来的舅舅。在山沟老人和其女儿的帮助下，英友和英爱之间的误会化解了。妍花也带着儿子赶来同昌焕汇合。众人为了渡过豆满江，和日军展开了血拼。一场激战后，除了昌焕父子和英爱，余者全部倒在冰冷的雪地上……

申相玉1967年的电影《이조잔영》

在仁川登陆作战的江大硕部队的队员们向北进军，经过自己的故乡。故乡因为战争变得一片狼藉，人们流离失所。在这里，北韩人民军无论是抓住个人或全家都将其杀害，这种南北理念上的的对立，导致兄弟之间都会反目成仇，互为敌人。在郑源洙和安向民的村庄里，队员们和村民与包围过来的共军发生了激烈的冲突，血流成河，这些士兵成了不能回来的海兵。他们中只有安向民一个人活了下来，并最终回到了爱人的怀抱。

Tto-sun (Do Kum-bong) is the younger daughter of a transportation company owner (Choi Nam-hyeon) who came to South Korea from Hamgyeongbuk-do. She possesses great financial acumena trait she inherited from her entrepreneurial father. One day, a young man named Jae-gu (Lee Dae-yub) comes in with a letter of recommendation and asks to be hired as a driver. Lending him a sum of money, Tto-sun befriends Jae-gu. When Tto-sun's father reprimands her for her act of generosity, she decides to move out of her own. Although her mother tries to dissuade her, Tto-sun does not yield, insisting that living alone will help her to cultivate her independence. Unlike the unworldly Jae-gu, Tto-sun shows herself to be enormously savvy: she assiduously makes money by every available means, including selling rat traps, vending rice cakes, and delivering coals. Tto-sun proposes to Jae-gu that they should buy a car and start a transportation business. Jae-gu, in his turn, comes to care for the resourceful Tto-sun. Her parents object to the marriage at first, but on the day Tto-sun and Jae-gu return to visit them with the newly-purchased vehicle in tow, they consent to the union.