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Amphibians in Movies   Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (2003)   Spoiler Alert ! Some of these pictures and descriptions may give away plot details that you might not want to know before watching the film.   In this beautiful Korean film a young boy (5 or 6) is learning from his Buddhist master. They live in a one-room temple that sits on a floating island on an isolated lake in the mountains of South Korea. One day as he is walking along a creek, he ties stones to several animals he finds, including a frog. It is weighed down by the stone and can hardly move. We see it try to swim away but getting nowhere. The master discovers that the boy is torturing animals with stones. As punishment, he ties a large stone to the boy when he is sleeping, then he makes the boy drag the stone back uphill to free the animals. The boy finds the frog alive and is able to remove the stone and release it.