4 films: Spring, summer, ... ans spring - Kim Ki-duk -2003

Hangul 봄, 여름, 가을, 겨울 그리고 봄
RR Bom yeoreum gaeul gyeoul geurigo bom
English Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
Directed by Kim Ki-duk

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The film is divided into five segments (the five seasons of the title), each segment depicting a different stage in the life of a Buddhist monk (each segment is roughly ten to twenty years apart, and is physically in the middle of its titular season).

Spring We are introduced the of the very young Buddhist apprentice with his master on a small floating monastery, drifting on a lake in the serene forested mountains of Korea. The apprentice and his master live a basic life of prayer and meditation, using an old rowboat to reach the bank of the lake where they regularly go walking, for exercise and to collect herbs. One day...
...and Spring Finally, returning to "Spring", the cycle is completed: the new master lives in the monastery with the abandoned baby, now his apprentice. The boy is shown to torment a tortoise and, wandering into the rocky hills, echoes his predecessor, forcing stones into the mouths of a fish, frog and snake.
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