Hwa-Om-Kyung

1993 South Korean film

Hwa-Om-Kyung
Poster for Hwa-Om-Kyung (1993)

Hangul	화엄경
Hanja	華嚴經
Revised Romanization	Hwaeomgyeong
McCune–Reischauer	Hwaŏmgyŏng

Directed by	Jang Sun-woo^[1]
Written by	Jang Sun-woo
Produced by	Lee Tae-won
Starring	Oh Tae-kyung Won Mi-kyung
Cinematography	You Young-gil
Edited by	Kim Hyeon
Music by	Yi Zong-gu
Distributed by	Tae Heung Films Co., Ltd.
Release date	June 26, 1993 (1993-06-26)
Running time	110 minutes
Country	South Korea
Language	Korean
Box office	$564^[2]

Hwa-Om-Kyung (also known as Passage to Buddha) is a 1993 South Korean film written and directed by Jang Sun-woo. It is an adaptation of the famous Mahayana sutra, Avatamsaka Sutra.

Plot

The film presents a Buddhist-themed story of a boy searching for his mother who abandoned him as a baby, and the characters he meets on his journey.^[1]

Cast

Oh Tae-kyung as Seon-jae^[1]
Won Mi-kyung as Lady of lotus
Lee Ho-jae as Beob-un
Lee Hye-young as Ma-ni
Kim Hye-sun as I-ryeon
Lee Dae-ro as Lighthouse keeper
Dokgo Young-jae as Hae-un
Shin Hyun-joon as Ji-ho
Jeong Soo-young as I-na
Um Chun-bae as Deok-ku

Awards

Wins

44th Berlin International Film Festival (1994), Alfred Bauer Prize^[3]

Nominations

Berlin International Film Festival (1994), Golden Berlin Bear

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "The Avatamska Sutra (Hwa-eomgyeong) (1993)". Korean Movie Database (KMDb). Retrieved 2021-07-06.
^ "The Avatamska Sutra (1993)". Korean Film Council. Retrieved 2021-07-06.
^ "Berlinale: 1994 Prize Winners". Berlin International Film Festival. Retrieved 2021-07-06.

Bibliography

Paquet, Darcy. "Green Fish". koreanfilm.org. Retrieved 2021-07-06.
Aliberti, Davide. "Passage to Buddha". L'Orientale. Università degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale".