Hwa-Om-Kyung Explained

Hwa-Om-Kyung
Native Name:	Child: yes Hide: no Header: none Hangul: 화엄경 Rr: Hwaeomgyeong Mr: Hwaŏmgyŏng
Director:	Jang Sun-woo^[1]
Producer:	Lee Tae-won
Starring:	Oh Tae-kyung Won Mi-kyung
Music:	Yi Zong-gu
Cinematography:	You Young-gil
Editing:	Kim Hyeon
Distributor:	Tae Heung Films Co., Ltd.
Runtime:	110 minutes
Country:	South Korea
Language:	Korean
Gross:	$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

Bibliography

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Avatamska Sutra (Hwa-eomgyeong) (1993). 2021-07-06. Korean Movie Database (KMDb).
2. Web site: The Avatamska Sutra (1993). Korean Film Council. 2021-07-06.
3. Web site: Berlinale: 1994 Prize Winners. 2021-07-06. Berlin International Film Festival.