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 Avatamsaka Sutra of Mahayana Buddhism.
The movie in 1994 won the now-defunct Alfred Bauer Prize from the Berlin International Film Festival, an honor for a work that "opens new perspectives on cinematic art.https://www.berlinale.de/en/archive/awards-juries/awards.html/y=1994/o=desc/p=1/rp=40
Plot This Buddhist-themed story is about a boy searching for his mother, who abandoned him as a baby, and the people he meets on his journey.
Cast Oh Tae-kyung as Seon-jae 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
Nominations Berlin International Film Festival (1994), Golden Berlin Bear
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