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  • ️Sat Jun 26 1993

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Hwa-Om-Kyung

Poster for Hwa-Om-Kyung (1993)

Hangul

화엄경

Hanja
Revised RomanizationHwaeomgyeong
McCune–ReischauerHwaŏmgyŏng
Directed byJang Sun-woo[1]
Written byJang Sun-woo
Produced byLee Tae-won
StarringOh Tae-kyung
Won Mi-kyung
CinematographyYou Young-gil
Edited byKim Hyeon
Music byYi Zong-gu
Distributed byTae Heung Films Co., Ltd.

Release date

  • June 26, 1993

Running time

110 minutes
CountrySouth Korea
LanguageKorean
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.

This Buddhist-themed story is of a boy searching for his mother who abandoned him as a baby, and the people he meets on his journey.[1]

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