Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (films not included). Pages: 29. Chapters: 3-Iron, Action Boys, Address Unknown (2001 film), Bad Guy (film), Birdcage Inn, Breath (2007 film), Crocodile (1996 film), Daytime Drinking, Die Bad, Dream (2008 film), If You Were Me, Life Is Cool (film), Like You Know It All, Night and Day (2008 film), Oasis (film), Old Partner, On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate, Oseam (2003 film), Peppermint Candy, Re-encounter, Real Fiction, Sa-kwa, Samaritan Girl, Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring, Tale of Cinema, The Bow (film), The Coast Guard (film), The Isle, Time (2006 film), Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Wild Animals, Woman Is the Future of Man, Woman on the Beach. Excerpt: Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring is a 2003 South Korean film about a Buddhist monastery that floats on a lake in a pristine forest. The story is about the life of a Buddhist monk as he passes through the seasons of his life, from childhood to old age. The movie was directed by Kim Ki-duk, and stars Su Oh-yeong, Kim Young-min, Seo Jae-kyung, and Kim Jong-ho. The director himself appears as the man in the last stage of life. The quiet, contemplative film marked a significant change from his previous works, which were often criticized for excessive violence and misogyny. The film was released in the United States in 2004 by Sony Pictures Classics, in subtitle format. 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. The segments are roughly ten to twenty years apart, and the action of each takes place during the season of its title. We are introduced to the life of the very young Buddhist apprentice living 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 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, in a creek amongst the rocky hills, the apprentice torments a fish by tying a small stone to it with string and laughing as it struggles to swim. Shortly after, he does the same to a frog and a snake; his master quietly observes on all three occasions, and that night ties a large, smooth rock to the apprentice as he sleeps. In the morning, he tells his apprentice that he cannot take off the rock until he unties the creatures he tormented - adding that if any of them have died, he will "carry the stone in his heart forever." The boy struggles with the load on his back through the forest, and finds the fish, lying dead at the bottom of the creek, finds the frog still