Director: Kang Je Kyu

Cast: Han Seok-kyu, Shim Hye-jin, Jin Hee-kyung, Shin Hyun-jun, Kim Hak-cheol

Producer: Shin Chul, Oh Jung-wan

Screenwriter: Kang Je Kyu

Director of Photography: Park Hee-ju

Art Designer: Cho Young-sam, Oh Sang-man

Composer: Lee Dong-jun

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Year: 1996

Running time: 87 minutes

Awards: Winner of Best New Director and Best Actress at the Grand Bell Awards (Daejong Film Awards) 1996. Additionally, the film received three awards at the Blue Dragon Film Awards 1996, including Best New Director and also won Best Cinematography at the Baeksang Arts Awards 1996.

Synopsis

Soohyun, a stone engraving artist and college lecturer, lives a quiet life with his partner, Sunyoung, a surgeon. One day, he purchases an antique gingko bed from a street market, unknowingly awakening a love story that transcends time. What begins as an ordinary life slowly unravels into a mysterious entanglement of past lives, unfulfilled longing, and spirits bound by fate.

Director's biography

Kang Je-gyu (born 1962) is a pioneering Korean director known for shaping the country’s blockbuster cinema. His debut film, The Gingko Bed (1996), was among the first Korean commercial movies to effectively use computer-generated imagery. The action thriller Swiri (1999), produced on a budget of 2.4 billion won, famously surpassed Titanic in box office revenue in Korea, marking a turning point for the domestic action genre. Kang’s Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War (2004) brought him into the “10 million audience club,” selling over 11 million tickets, and won major awards, including Best Film at the Blue Dragon Film Awards and the Grand Bell Awards.