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 by | Jang Sun-woo |
Produced by | Lee Tae-won |
Starring | Oh Tae-kyung Won Mi-kyung |
Cinematography | You Young-gil |
Edited by | Kim Hyeon |
Music by | Yi Zong-gu |
Distributed by | Tae Heung Films Co., Ltd. |
Release date |
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Running time | 110 minutes |
Country | South Korea |
Language | Korean |
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.
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]
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]