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A tiny Buddhist monastery floats on a raft amidst a breathtaking landscape, tended to by a solitaryMonk. Into this serene setting comes a young child, who will become the Old Monk's protege... and so begins a lifelong journey of hope, despair, passion and redemption in a film hailed as "A triumphof sheer cinematic craft," (Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald). From the brash actions of youth, through the dawn of adolescence and the fullness of adulthood, one man's life lessons are learned as seasons pass, his emotional inner life changing as the landscape around him. Award-winning Korean writer/director/editor Kim Ki-duk has crafted a lushly exotic, yet universal story about the human spirit and its evolution, from Innocence to Love, Evil to Enlightenment, and ultimately to Rebirth that Elizabeth Weitzman of the New York Daily News calls "A beautifully composed canvas, the sort of film one falls into, resurfacing at the end with great reluctance."
Original Release
09/19/2003
US Release
05/28/2004
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Oh Yeong-su | Old Monk |
Kim Ki-duk | Adult Monk |
Kim Young-Min | Young Adult Monk |
Jae-kyeong Seo | Boy Monk |
Yeo-jin Ha | The Girl |
Jong-ho Kim | Child Monk |
Kim Jeong-yeong | The Girl's Mother |
Choi Min | Detective Choi |
Park Ji-ah | The Baby's Mother |
Min-Young Song | The Baby |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Oh Yeong-su | Old Monk |
Kim Ki-duk | Adult Monk |
Kim Young-Min | Young Adult Monk |
Jae-kyeong Seo | Boy Monk |
Yeo-jin Ha | The Girl |
Jong-ho Kim | Child Monk |
Kim Jeong-yeong | The Girl's Mother |
Choi Min | Detective Choi |
Park Ji-ah | The Baby's Mother |
Min-Young Song | The Baby |
Choe Min | Detective Choi |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Jae-Won Choi | Executive Producer |
Soma Chung | Executive Producer |
Myung-Sung Pack | Executive Producer |
Jeong-min Bae | Producer |
Karl Baumgartner | Producer |
Raimond Goebel | Producer |
Sang-Keun Kim | Producer |
So-hee Kim | Producer |
Seung-jae Lee | Producer |