Hwa-Om-Kyung

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Hwa-Om-Kyung
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Poster for Hwa-Om-Kyung (1993)
Hangul
화엄경
Hanja
華嚴經
RR Hwaeomgyeong
MR Hwaŏmgyŏng
Directed by Jang Sun-woo [1]
Written byJang Sun-woo
Produced byLee Tae-won
StarringOh Tae-kyung
Won Mi-kyung
CinematographyYou Young-gil
Edited byKim Hyeon
Music byYi Zong-gu
Distributed byTae Heung Films Co., Ltd.
Release date
  • June 26, 1993 (1993-06-26)
Running time
110 minutes
CountrySouth Korea
LanguageKorean
Box office$564 [2]

Hwa-Om-Kyung (also known as Passage to Buddha) is a 1993 South Korean film written and directed by Jang Sun-woo. It is an adaptation of the Avatamsaka Sutra of Mahayana Buddhism.

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The movie in 1994 won the now-defunct Alfred Bauer Prize from the Berlin International Film Festival, an honor for a work that "opens new perspectives on cinematic art. [3]

Plot

This Buddhist-themed story is about a boy searching for his mother, who abandoned him as a baby, and the people he meets on his journey. [1]

Cast

Awards

Wins

Nominations

References

  1. 1 2 3 "The Avatamska Sutra (Hwa-eomgyeong) (1993)". Korean Movie Database (KMDb). Retrieved 2021-07-06.
  2. "The Avatamska Sutra (1993)". Korean Film Council . Retrieved 2021-07-06.
  3. https://www.berlinale.de/en/archive/awards-juries/awards.html/y=1994/o=desc/p=1/rp=40
  4. "Berlinale: 1994 Prize Winners". Berlin International Film Festival. Retrieved 2021-07-06.

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