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Spring, summer, fall, winter-- and spring
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (Firm)
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
1 videodisc (approximately 103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
It's springtime in a small house floating on a small raft on a small lake, surrounded on all sides by steep walls of forest or stone, broken here and there by ravines. Old Monk lives here with his young apprentice. The lesson for Spring is about pain and guilt and conscience, Summer's the cruelty of desire, Autumn's about letting go of rage, and Winter's about penance and finding peace. And so Spring comes around again, and the cycle begins anew, as it must, and within that compass are life, faith, growth, love, jealousy, hate, cruelty, mystery, redemption . . . and nature. The film functions as a kind of Zen koan, paying keen attention to the purest and most elementary things--good and bad alike--that make us human.
Start -- Spring -- Herbs -- Stone I -- Summer -- Healing -- Lust -- Fall -- Punishment -- Winter -- Stone II -- And spring.
MPAA rating: Rated R for some strong sexuality.
Sony Pictures Classics ; presented by Korea Pictures Co. Ltd. ; production [by] LJ Film Co. Ltd. ; co-production [with] Pandora Film ; written / directed by Kim Ki-Duk ; producer, Lee Seung-Jae.
Oh Yeong-Su (Old monk), Kim Ki-Duk (Adult monk), Kim Young-Min (Young monk), Seo Jae-Kyung (Boy monk), Ha Yeo-Jin (the Girl), Kim Jong-Ho (Child monk), Kim Jung-Young (the girl's Mother), Ji Dae-Han (Detective Ji), Choi Min (Detective Choi), Park Ji-A (the baby's Mother), Song Min-Young (the Baby).
Originally produced as a Korean motion picture in 2003.
DVD; region 1; 5.1 Dolby Digital surround; anamorphic widescreen presentation, aspect ratio 1.85:1.
In Korean with optional subtitles in English or French.
Cinematographer, Baek Dong-Hyun ; editor, Kim Ki-Duk ; music, Bark Ji-Woong ; wardrobe, Kim Min-Hee ; art, Won Ki-Ju.
Winner, 2003 Blue Dragon Award [Korean 'Oscars']--Best Film; 2003 Locarno International Film Festival, C.I.C.A.E. (Confédération Internationale des Cinémas d'Art & Essai) Award, Don Quixote Award, Netpac (Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema) Award, Youth Jury Award--Ki-duk Kim.