Product Details

• Actors: Suk-kyu Han, Sun-kyung Kim, Hee-kyung Jin, Hye-jin Shim, Hyeon-jun Shin
• Directors: Je-gyu Kang
• Format: Color, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: Korean
• Subtitles: Chinese, English
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Tai Seng
• DVD Release Date: September 11, 2001
• Run Time: 88 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00005MKM5
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #155,777 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "The Gingko Bed" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Ghost Movie, December 18, 2002

By	SereneNight (California, USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

This is the tale of two Chinese yuppies, one (Su-Hyun) is an artist, who sidelines as a college professor. His girlfriend (Sun-Young)is a doctor, who works at the hectic City hospital.

When Su-Hyun purchases a massive Gingko bed for his art studio, he begins to hallucinate about seeing the Ghost of an ancient princess (Mi-Dan). Mi-Dan and her would-be suitor General Hwang, haunt the bed, due to an ancient curse. Mi-Dan has returned because Su-Hyun is the reincarnation of her ancient lover. Hwang has returned to protect Mi-Dan, and try and kill Su-Hyun.

I really liked Gingko bed. While the plot held nothing particularly new (Su-Hyun- and Mi-dan were stereotypically 'good' with no particular negative characteristics, and General Hwang was the evil obsessed anti-hero type), I liked it anyway. There were a couple scenes which remained unclear and seemed superfluous, for instance: the opening scene with Hwang attacking and killing the rapist, (this is supposed to be a bad guy? Seems pretty GOOD to me), The scene where Sun-Yuong leaves Su-Hyun's birthday cake on top of the car, and then this isn't even MENTIONED at his birthday party.... This makes me wonder whether some significant scenes might've been left on the cutting room floor.

Overall, though, despite these peccadillos, this was a great movie, well worth the time and money investment!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Sad but beautiful, April 29, 2000

By	Maxim Voronov (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Eunhaengnamoo chimdae [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is a very sad but very beautiful movie.

A successful artist finds an old gingko bed and discovers that the ghost of Princess Mi-Dan, his lover from past life is trapped within it. Enters General Hwang who killed the artist (who was a court musician at the time) a thousand years ago because he wanted Mi-Dan for himself.

The plot summary doesn't do the film justice. The film is rather complex. It should appeal to those who liked the Matrix. This film was made three years before the Matrix. It does not emphasize the special effects that much. But it really focuses on the different realities. An extremely intelligent and original film (fans of Hong Kong cinema may find it reminiscent of Stanley Kwan's (1987) ROUGE.

5.0 out of 5 stars I get this feeling that we have met before..... karmic love, April 26, 2006

By	M. R. Estante "http://aralarcalifornia.blogsp... (North America) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

The Gingko plant is known for memory and The Gingko bed is an Asian film about past-loves and their many karmic journeys together. Two modern Chinese yuppies buy a bed that awakens their karmic history, and the ensuing relationship takes a dramatic turn.