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7.6/10   535 votes
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Director:
Writer:
Yong-Kyun Bae (writer)
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Release Date:
23 September 1989 (South Korea) more
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Plot:
Three people live in a remote Buddhist monastery near Mount Chonan: Hyegok, the old master; Yong Nan... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
2 wins more
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a movie of incredibly beautiful compositions more (14 total)

Cast

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Myeong-deok Choi
Hae-Jin Huang ... Haejin (the little monk)
Hui-yeong Kim
Su-Myong Ko ... abbot
Eun-yeong Lee
Seon-hye Lee
Yi Pan-Yong ... Hyegok (the old monk)
Sin Won-Sop ... Kibong (the young monk)
Byeong-hui Yun ... Ki-bong's mother
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Why Did Bodhi-Dharma Leave for the East?
Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East?
Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East?: A Zen Fable (International: English title)
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Runtime:
137 min
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Film took seven years to complete, using a single camera, and was edited entirely by hand. more
Quotes:
[first lines]
Hyegok: Haejin! Haejin! There is no beginning and no end. Nothing is immutable, everything changes. That thing which does not come into being does not die.
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11 out of 11 people found the following comment useful.
a movie of incredibly beautiful compositions, 11 June 1999
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Author: mkiem from San Jose, CA

Yong-Kyun Bae is an art professor at a university in Korea. "Dharma" was virtually a solo effort by him and it took ten years to complete. The movie has little plot to speak of, and consists of a series of images, a slide show of moving images about a man's path to Enlightenment. They are strikingly beautiful and force the viewer to contemplate one's own life and existence. On the surface, all of the images are serene but underneath them lie deep power and a palpable spiritual yearning. As one reviewer aptly put it, "This movie is not about Zen, it is Zen."

Bae has made a second movie which was released in 1997. It is also very contemplative but unfortunately is nearly incomprehensible.

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