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Mandala is a sud coréen film of genre Drama directed by Im Kwon-taek with Ahn Sung-ki
Mandala (1981)
만다라
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Add to a movie listMandala (Hangul: 만다라) is a 1981 South Korean film about Buddhist monks in Korea. This is considered by many critics to be director Im Kwon-taek's breakthrough film as a cinematic artist.
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The film follows the differing lives of two Buddhist monks in Korea. By following their lives and their interaction throughout the film, Im creates a contemplation of the nature of individualism, religious belief and enlightenment.Actors
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Actors Ahn Sung-ki, Jeong Yun-hui, Kim Ji-young
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, 1h57Directed by Im Kwon-taek
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Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Themes Peinture
Actors Choi Min-sik, Yoo Ho-jeong, Ahn Sung-ki, Kim Yeo-jin, Son Ye-jin, Yun Jin-seo
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It begins with the Korean artist being suspicious of a Japanese art-lover who values his work. The story then goes back to his man's early years. Beginning as a vagabond with a talent for drawing, he has a talent for imitating other people's art, but is urged to go on and develop a style of his own. This process is painful and he often behaves very badly, getting drunk and being hostile to those who care about him and try to help him.
Adada (1987)
, 1h58Directed by Im Kwon-taek
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Genres Drama, Action
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, 1h29Directed by Im Kwon-taek
Origin Coree du sud
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Actors Ahn Sung-ki, Kim Q-ri, Yeon Woo-jin, Kim Ho-jung, Kim Gyu-ri, Joo Hyun
Rating65%
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Festival (1996)
, 1h48Directed by Im Kwon-taek
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Ahn Sung-ki, Shin Seong-il
Rating71%
A famous writer, Lee Joon-seop, returns to his hometown to attend his mother's funeral. Lee's illegitimate niece, who has been ostracized from the family, has also returned home for the funeral. While the funeral ceremonies take place, various old family conflicts reassert themselves. During the action of the story, a parallel children's story written by Lee is read by the illegitimate niece. The story describes a grandmother who gives her life force to her growing granddaughter, resulting in the grandmother becoming gradually younger until she reverts into an infant and finally leaves for the next world.
The Taebaek Mountains (1994)
, 2h48Directed by Im Kwon-taek
Origin Coree du sud
Genres Drama, War
Actors Ahn Sung-ki, Bang Eun-jin, Kim Kap-soo, Kim Myung-gon, Shin Hyun-joon, Ahn Suk-hwan
Rating68%
The film originates from the great river story Taebaegsanmaek consisting of 10 volumes and is written by Cho Jeongrae. The story tries to describe and reveal a few generations-lasting conflicts between the haves (proprietors) and have-nots (peasants), which develop into right wings and left wings respectively. While revealing why and how the conflicts come about, the story depicts every corner of real life—romantic, shamanic, and Confucian aspects of the contemporaries. It provides a further insight into the politically controversial ideological issue on which the viewpoint is virtually hardened among over 40's in South Korea. This ideological issue survives even in the digital age to have a substantial effect on presidential elections. The author dares to show what the ideological conflict derives from and tries to describe it in detail and with artistic skill of commanding Korean colloquial language supplying its readers the true taste of Korean dialect expressions especially in its southern part Jeolla province.
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, 2h14Directed by Im Kwon-taek
Origin Coree du sud
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Actors Kang Soo-yeon, Jeon Moo-song, Choi Jong-won
Rating66%
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, 1h45Directed by Im Kwon-taek
Origin Coree du sud
Genres Drama
Actors Kim Ji-mee, Ahn Sung-ki, Shin Seong-il, Kim Ji-young, Choi Bool-am, Jeon Moo-song
Rating68%
In 1983 KBS launched a campaign to reunite families torn apart in the Korean War three decades earlier. In an expert dissection of the social and familial rifts in modern Korea, director Im Kwon-taek integrates footage from the campaign into the story of Hwa-yeong, who leaves her middle-class life in Busan to search for the son she lost in Gilsotteum during the war.
A Little Monk (2003)
, 1h39Origin Coree du sud
Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion, Films about Buddhism
Actors Kim Min-kyo, Jeon Moo-song, Kim Ye-ryeong
Rating67%
Abandonné par sa mère, rejeté par les autres enfants, le jeune Do-nyeom ne cesse d'espérer le retour de sa mère. Se nouant d'amitié avec la petite Soo-Yeon, elle sera le seul point commun avec une enfance normale.
Come Down to a Lower Place (1982)
, 1h42Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion
Actors Shin Seong-il, Na Young-hee, Ahn Sung-ki, Kim Ji-young
Rating28%
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