Highest-Rated Movies about 'Zen', Sort by Popularity
How to Cook Your Life (2007), Cold Dog Soup (1990), Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? (1989) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Zen movies.
#1. How to Cook Your Life (2007)
Storyline: Doris Dörrie's camera greets Edward Espe Brown when he arrives in Australia to give a class on cooking, Zen, and meditation. We see him back home in Northern California as well. Brown, for forty years a Zen cook, demonstrates cooking as well as commenting on topics including anger, quiet, gleaning and waste, battered pots, and how he found his vocation. A focus of his is to demonstrate how to bring one's self to cooking and to others simultaneously. He quotes often from two masters, with several examples of Zen wit. The camera takes the occasional trip to fast food restaurants to provide contrast to Brown's approach and results.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: chef, documentarian, student, inspiring, fascinating, california, australia ...
Movie Details Click Here!#2. Cold Dog Soup (1990)
Storyline: Randy Quaid as the taxi driver drives Zen parables (Is time money - Is time the root of all evil?) into his passenger/protegee in a high-speed, idiosyncratic tour of their city's ethnic coteries. All the boy wants is to dispose of his date's dead dog Jasper and get back to the babe who's so hot she mutters darkly about being a Pressure Cooker: his conventional efforts are continually thwarted. Quaid is respected by the peculiar groups he interests in the dog's corpse and effects, and our one-gloved heroine is much keener on him than on her rather lackluster date.—Tanaqui Weaver <cen@ecs.ox.ac.uk>
Plot Keywords: dog, mother, amusing, hell, heaven, first date, promises ...
Movie Details Click Here!#3. Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? (1989)
Storyline: Kibong (Won-Sop Sin), a young Buddhist monk on a quest to achieve peace and enlightenment, ventures to a monastery in the mountains of South Korea to commune with the elderly and reclusive Hyegok (Pan-Yong Yi) in hopes of gaining the answers he craves. With the aid of Haejin (Hae-Jin Huang), the young orphan who lives with him, Hyegok attempts to impart his wisdom onto Kibong. Yet, the young man still feels torn between his old life in the city and the path toward inner peace.
Plot Keywords: buddhist, monk, orphan, young boy, mother, old man, fascinating ...
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