late autumn. Forest. Maple leaves either flow with the clear spring, or quietly blend into the earth, or fly in the air, a quiet and pleasant pastoral scene, just like the scene of Wang Wei's "Mountain Residence Autumn Breeze" reproduced.
The aesthetic style of Korean cinema is fully displayed in the animation: the scenery of the countryside, fresh and beautiful; the temple of the snow, solemn and beautiful; the squirrels, thrushes, and small flowers in the snow, full of business; but such a beautiful scenery is used to depict a sad story. "Five-Year-Old An" will remind you of Ghibli's "Grave of the Fireflies", a naïve child + a cold ending + a small corpse + a reunion in the fantasy of death - the warmest scene.
The film, which won the Best Animated Film Award at the 2004 Asia Pacific Film Festival, is based on an ancient Korean legend that Master Mei Yue of the time of Queen Silla Sundeok took her 5-year-old son to a nunnery to practice, and due to lack of food, Master Mei Yue went out to make a relationship and returned after making an appointment with his son for 3 days. However, due to the wind and snow, Master Meiyue did not return until the spring of the following year, and his son had already sat in front of the Buddha statue, so the nunnery was renamed the five-year-old nunnery.
Sister Xiaolan, who has lost her parents, and her five-year-old brother Xiaoji admire the seagulls by the sea, and then go to the stream to eat the hot potatoes given to them by the kind woman, smiling heartily.
Xiao Ji's wish is to find her mother. Xiao Lan's wish was to see her brother's face again, and she couldn't bear to say that her mother had long been buried in the sea of fire, and it was the fire that had robbed her of her eyes.
The two monks met Xiao Ji, who was trapped in a tree, and Xiao Lan, who had just fallen into the water, thought that this was a kind of fate and took them in to live in the temple. The little white dog that Xiao Ji saved from the mouth of the wild cat also lived in with him, and named it "Breeze", because in Xiao Ji's eyes, the breeze was as soft as her sister's hand, and like her mother, who seemed to feel it, but never appeared.
The mischievous Xiao Ji always makes trouble in the temple, which is called "little trouble": he steals the monk's winter clothes and puts them on for fear of cold, hangs the monk's shoes on the maple tree to play, breaks the rosary beads, and makes endless strange tricks.
The bad boys who came to the temple bullied the sisters and brothers, making Xiao Ji sigh why the bad boys all had mother pain, but they didn't. The monk who rescued Xiao Ji saw that he was sad and told him that by practicing, he could open his heart and eyes and see everything in the world, such as the breeze. Xiao Ji thought that he could see his mother, so after the first snow, he followed the monk to the top of the mountain opposite to practice. Unexpectedly, the first parting of the brother and sister was also a permanent parting.
There were only two masters and apprentices on the mountain, and Xiao Ji was bored, grabbing pheasants, catching rabbits, and begging the master to play with him. On the second day of taking him skiing, the monk took advantage of the good weather to go to the market to buy items for the winter and bought xiao ji small winter boots. On the way back, a sudden snowstorm fell, and the monk slipped down the valley in the mountain, passed out, and was rescued by the people in the mountain, but he had been feverish and unconscious.
There was a room in the temple on the top of the hill that was locked because of the monk who had lived with leprosy, and Xiao Ji was very lonely, and when he saw that the picture of Guanyin was enshrined in that room, he came here to talk to Guanyin. Looking at the portrait and asking: Can you call your mother? He thought that Master was angry because he loved to cause trouble, and he didn't come back for several days.
The snow melted, and the monk recovered from his illness and Xiaolan went up the mountain to find Xiao Ji, but he was already asleep forever in front of the statue of Guanyin. The sister hugged him, and the picture switched to a bright and warm scene of pink, yellow and green. There, my mother and brother and sister happily ate and played together. In honor of Xiao Ji, the house where the statue of Kannon was hung was named Five-year-old Temple.