Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
IMDb RATING
8.0/10
82K
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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.
IMDb RATING
8.0/10
82K
YOUR RATING
- Awards
- 16 wins & 9 nominations
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Kim Jeong-yeong
- The Girl's Motheras The Girl's Mother
- (as Jung-young Kim)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
- See more cast details at IMDbPro
Storyline
In the midst of the Korean wilderness, a Buddhist master patiently raises a young boy to grow up in wisdom and compassion, through experience and endless exercises. Once the pupil discovers his sexual lust, he seems lost to contemplative life and follows his first love, but soon fails to adapt to the modern world, gets in jail for a crime of passion and returns to the master in search of spiritual redemption and reconciliation with karma, at a high price of physical catharsis... —KGF Vissers
- Genres
- Certificate
- 14A
- Parents guide
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
Top review
I was left speechless by this movie
This film left me speechless, and I still have a hard time putting how I feel about this movie into words. After seeing it the first time in the theater, my friend and I couldn't bring ourselves to say a word to each other...not even in the car on the ride back. The second time I saw it, after purchasing it, another friend and I walked around the campus for half an hour in silence. The third time, a friend and I sat in silence in her room for an hour after the movie was over. This film is that profound, touching, and moving.
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...Spring is the most beautiful movie I have ever seen. Visually it is fantastic, though several films surpass it in this aspect. However, the film manages to speak directly to the soul (or...failing to believe in the soul...something deep inside anyone watching it), and this is where it's beauty lies. Parts are so affecting that a painful nostalgia for a place you never knew overwhelms you.
I am sorry I cannot be more helpful...the quality that makes this movie so wonderful is well beyond words for me.
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...Spring is the most beautiful movie I have ever seen. Visually it is fantastic, though several films surpass it in this aspect. However, the film manages to speak directly to the soul (or...failing to believe in the soul...something deep inside anyone watching it), and this is where it's beauty lies. Parts are so affecting that a painful nostalgia for a place you never knew overwhelms you.
I am sorry I cannot be more helpful...the quality that makes this movie so wonderful is well beyond words for me.
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- alexander-lewis
- Feb 18, 2005
Details
- Release date
- Countries of origin
- Official sites
- Language
- Also known as
- Bom Yeoareum Gaeul Gyeoul Geurigo Bom
- Filming locations
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $2,380,788
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $42,561
- Apr 4, 2004
- Gross worldwide
- $8,945,072
- 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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