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Yong-kun Kwak

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Yong-kun Kwak

Yong-kun Kwak is a filmmaker and veteran choreographer with over twenty years of experience and more than 400 works across film, television, and advertising. A former principal dancer at MBC, one of Korea's national broadcasters, he has been a significant influence on the country's commercial dance industry. He came to directing from the body. His interest is not in filming dance, but in the mome…

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Buddha Hands Up : PrequelBuddha Hands Up : Prequel · 2026
Buddha Hands Up : Prequel
2026
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Hyun-jin, a ten-year-old novice monk, lives in a mountain temple. One day music drifts over from the Catholic church across the forest, and he follows it. There he meets Sister Maria. Where words fail them, music does the talking — and when the temple's bodhisattvas, Avalokiteshvara and Ksitigarbha, join in, it escalates into a full dance battle. A 24-minute fantasy where the boundary between faith and instinct begins to blur.

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