Hisako loses her home in Tokyo to Allied bombing. With her husband fighting somewhere in Asia, she and her two children evacuate to a suburb of Kobe, where they share a house with Hisako's cousin, Kyoko. Kobe is bombed and...

There are four stories, "Fate Detector", "Monastery Island", "Free-Style Mommy", "Voice of the Night".

Min-soo is on leave from the military and visits his boyfriend Seok-yi. While having fun out on the town, they run into Min-soo mother's mother! When the Min-soo's mother asks about their relationship, Min-soo replies "... just friends." Making things more complicated, Min-soo's mother ends up sleeping between them that night!

A best-selling writer is threatened when her private life is leaked and she is stigmatized. Soon after, she is kidnapped while at a bar and wakes up inside an oil drum covered in blood. In order to survive, the writer must confront her enemies and use her imagination to save herself.

Yutaka is assigned to work in Bangkok before getting married to his fiancee. There he meets the attractive Toko and the two spend an unforgettable four months together. Just when Yutaka realizes that he has true feelings for Toko, she leaves him. 25 years later, however, they still cannot forget the time they spent together.

Undercover agent Chul Soo finds himself trapped in the biggest dilemma of his career when he spots his oblivious wife, Yeong Hui, while on a mission in Thailand. What surprises and concerns him, even more, is that she is accompanied by an attractive mystery man. Chul Soo confronts the biggest dilemma of his life in how to resolve the terrorist threat, protect his wife and keep his secret. Will Chul Soo be able to save both his country and his marriage?

(Source: CJ Entertainment)

Yohei, a punk rocker, becomes a Buddhist monk in order to inherit a mountain temple. Though initially rebelling against the tough monastic discipline, he learns to adjust. Then his girlfriend shows up, enticing him to return to his rock 'n' roll roots.

My cinematic memory of South Korean actor Lee Byung-hun was in macho action movies like JSA and A Bittersweet Life, so Once in a Summer appeals because I am curious to know how he would do in an out and out soppy romance, released in time this month for Valentine's Day. And the verdict is yes, it will hit the right spots with the romantics out there, but even as I rolled my eyes at the formula employed for a romance, I was won over by its hard hitting ending, and moments as described in one of my favourite songs