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Pan-Yong Yi,
Pan-Yong Yi,
Won-Sop Sin,
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Bae Yong-kyun,
Bae Yong-kyun
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: Not Rated
: Image Entertainment
: Drama, Foreign, Korea
: 137 min.
: Korean
: English
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The title refers to a Zen riddle for which there is no answer. Noted painter Bae Yong-kyun spent several years devoted to carefully and lovingly creating this challenging, meditative and exquisitely photographed film. A young man aspires to the priestly life and so travels to a remote mountain hermitage to study under an aged Zen Master whose corporeal days are numbered. The master lives alone there with a small orphan boy. As the days slowly pass, the master occasionally shares his wisdom with his followers. Much time is spent following the boy as he learns about the nature of life in the smallest of ways. Sometimes the older acolyte has brief memories of the past he recently left. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
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by dvshjs
March 25, 2006 - 4:40 PM PST
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1 out of 1 members found this review helpful
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| This is a movie that you may want to set some time to the side for. Its long its slow it can seem boring but let it just be. It is a very Buddhist movie, there is a great quote in it, "My body returns to its original condition. Blood and pus from my wounds will fall as dew from the night sky. I am insubstantial in the universe. But in the universe, there is nothing which is not me." Watch this. |
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