Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
Original title: Bom yeoreum gaeul gyeoul geurigo bom
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A boy is raised by a Buddhist monk in an isolated floating temple where the years pass like the seasons.A boy is raised by a Buddhist monk in an isolated floating temple where the years pass like the seasons.A boy is raised by a Buddhist monk in an isolated floating temple where the years pass like the seasons.
- Awards
- 15 wins & 9 nominations
Oh Yeong-su
- Old Monk
- (as Young-soo Oh)
Seo Jae-kyeong
- Boy Monk
- (as Jae-kyeong Seo)
Kim Jeong-yeong
- The Girl's Mother
- (as Jung-young Kim)
Ji Dae-han
- Detective Ji
- (as Dae-han Ji)
Choi Min
- Detective Choi
- (as Min Choi)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
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Did you know
- TriviaThe inscription on the floor is "The Heart Sutra", one of the most important Sutra of Mahayana Buddhism, written in literary Chinese.
- GoofsWhen the young monk finishes inscribing the Heart Sutra on the floor and falls down exhausted, the inscriptions below him change between shots (even though he is lying motionless). In one shot, the inscriptions he is lying on have been painted; and as he wakes up, the paint is gone.
- Alternate versionsThe local Korean version of this film is approximately 90 seconds longer than the International release; a sequence was removed near the end of the film (at about the 100-minute point). This is reflected in the DVD releases, as the Tartan R2 (UK) release and the Columbia/Tristar R1 (USA) release use the International cut of the film, while the Bitwin R3 (Korean) DVD uses the original cut.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Arirang (2011)
- SoundtracksJeongseon Arirang
Traditional
Performed by Kim Young Im
Featured review
not only cinema, but art
This film is a good example why cinema is called an art - this is not just another movie, but a real piece of art. The pleasure of seeing it belongs to the aesthetics, and it transcends beyond the action and beyond what only happens on screen, or what the characters say and do.
It is both a simple and complex story - the story of a life, catching all seasons of development of man: innocence of childhood - so quickly lost unfortunately, mistakes of the young age, tragedies of maturity , and wisdom coming with the old age.
The film is filmed at one location of a cut-breathing beauty. Beauty of nature is being maximized by the art of the camera. The soundtrack has little dialog, but the expressiveness of the actors makes the dialog useless. You feel the drama, you do not need to hear the words, and the music says more than words.
There are a lot of symbols in this movie, and I probably lost most of them because they belong to the Budhist culture. There are however many other symbols that speak to the European spectator - the cycles of life, the rhythms of nature, the magic figure 4, like the number of seasons of the year, or like the number of parts in classic symphony, the unity of space as in Greek tragedy, and time - one life instead of one day, all give to this creation a wonderful symmetry and equilibrium.
Worth seeing, this is a film that will make the delight of anybody who believes like I do that cinema is an art.
It is both a simple and complex story - the story of a life, catching all seasons of development of man: innocence of childhood - so quickly lost unfortunately, mistakes of the young age, tragedies of maturity , and wisdom coming with the old age.
The film is filmed at one location of a cut-breathing beauty. Beauty of nature is being maximized by the art of the camera. The soundtrack has little dialog, but the expressiveness of the actors makes the dialog useless. You feel the drama, you do not need to hear the words, and the music says more than words.
There are a lot of symbols in this movie, and I probably lost most of them because they belong to the Budhist culture. There are however many other symbols that speak to the European spectator - the cycles of life, the rhythms of nature, the magic figure 4, like the number of seasons of the year, or like the number of parts in classic symphony, the unity of space as in Greek tragedy, and time - one life instead of one day, all give to this creation a wonderful symmetry and equilibrium.
Worth seeing, this is a film that will make the delight of anybody who believes like I do that cinema is an art.
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- Also known as
- Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... And Spring
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $2,380,788
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $42,561
- Apr 4, 2004
- Gross worldwide
- $8,842,229
- Runtime1 hour 43 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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By what name was Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (2003) officially released in Canada in French?
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