The Memorial Gate for Virtuous Women (Yeolnyeomun / 열녀문)
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Release info:
Bound.by.chastity.rule.1962.EN
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A widow of an aristocratic family falls in love with a servant. After she gives birth to a baby fathered by the servant, her in-laws kick him and the baby out. As the years pass, the baby grows up to become a man and comes to see his mother. But she cannot acknowledge that he is his son because it is a rule of the society that widows must keep celibacy. She turns her back on her own son.