This is an absolute cinema masterpiece. It is almost silent. The actors could be anyone Buddhist. No words are needed to express any feelings, just image. And very beautiful, at that. Violence when it rarely occurs, is felt, not graphically shown. This film can have many layers of interpretation. Mine is that human beings always return to their mistakes, if discipline and education are not enforced thru the whole life. That is the failure of the Rousseau based Democratic system. The Western civilization will soon collapse. The Budist system has more chances of survival, just because it is close to Nature. The fact that it was made in Korea with German Production support, perhaps financial tell it all. The Sons of Jeovah, should watch this and stop killing their brothers.