Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East?

Original title달마가 동쪽으로 간 까닭은

Country: South Korea
IMDB: 7.5	Views: 715	Subs: en ru

Country: South Korea
IMDB: 7.5	Views: 715
Subs: English and Russian

Director

Bae Yong-kyun

Actors

Byeong-hui Yun Hae-Jin Huang Myeong-deok Choi Sin Won-Sop Su-Myong Ko Yi Pan-Yong

Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? with English and Russian subtitles is a South Korean film written, produced and directed by Bae Yong-kyun, a professor at Dongguk University in Seoul. Known principally as a painter, Bae spent seven years making this film with one camera and editing it by hand. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival. It was the first South Korean film to receive a theater release in the United States.

Three people live in a remote Buddhist monastery near Mount Chonan: Hyegok, the old master; Yong Nan, a young man who has left his extended family in the city to seek enlightenment – Hyegok calls him Kibong!; and, an orphan lad Haejin, whom Hyegok has brought to the monastery to raise as a monk. The story is mostly Yong Nan’s, told in flashbacks: how he came to the monastery, his brief return to the city, his vacillation between the turbulence of the world and his hope to overcome passions and escape the idea of self. We also see Hyegok as a teacher, a protector, and a father figure, and we watch Haejin make his way as a curious and nearly self-sufficient child.

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Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? (달마가 동쪽으로 간 까닭은) with English subtitles

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