The Legend of Gingko

2000
5.3| 1h57m| en
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Caught in between an ethnic war, Bee struggles between love and death.

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Also starring Choi Jin-sil

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Sarita Rafferty There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.
Cody One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.
Kayden This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama
Brooklynn There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.
Tom Demuynck (geniale_schildpad) ... to say the least. I bought this baby for €4.99, and I keep wondering why it's priced so low! Perhaps because nobody knows the film? Well, they should.Don't get me wrong, it's no masterpiece, but it can easily compete with most of recent blockbusters. The action sequences were very nice, and the acting was incredible, as were the settings and costumes. To bad for the rather badly done CGI, but what can someone expect from a country that only recently has adopted CGI. conclusion: Gingko shows us just a little bit of the bright future Southern Korea has in the international movie industy. 7,5/10
veganflimgeek Ginko bed 2While a huge fan of Ginko bed 1 I do have it on VCD. I remember GB1 to be a sorta Korean version of Ghost(you know demi moore,Swayzee) calling this film a sequel is kinda a stretch. It would be like making a fantasy film about another dimension with Zuhl and the gatekeeper and calling it a Ghostbusters sequel.I was drawn to this film to by a comparison that comments from the Sing Young here San Diego had put on the box referring to it as `A South Korean Conan'. I don't think that is fair. A South Korean Lord of the rings maybe. You see there is a holy mountain, a quest which involves the sacrifice of a woman who is loved by two warriors.The massive swords are about the only thing Conan and this film share. That is not to say I didn't enjoy the film. I did. There was massive amounts of brutal battles and touches of well done CGI effects. The film however would have been better off to fully embrace the fantasy element with some Wire-fu. They went for a more brutal style of fighting, a style done brilliantly in MUSA but this is not MUSA.The biggest problem with the fill was the melodramatic romance that looked like a what I imagine a Korean Days of our lives to seem like. It was also cool to see the woman from Shiri return with another awesome role.
king-8 Not, I repeat, not a sequel to Gingko Bed. Great sense of a fully realized world where young men must go through a life and death trial to be a warrior and evil lurks in the forest just outside the peaceful compounds of the village. Great performances by all. Especially Yoon-jin Kim who plays the female warrior / archer, Yun. She also played the North Korean agent in the movie Shiri. Don't miss it!
tim (eyoak) This movie, which has a lot of fighting scenes, isn't about the action. The fighting scenes are messy and hardly believable. In my opinion they do not make the story less realistic.But the heart of the movie is good. Good and evil isn't portrayed as black and white. We see two rival clans, but both have their motives to fight for the survival of their people, which means suffering for the opponents. The movie makes some unexpected twists that makes it more interesting on a personal level In the end it's about obsession, possession versus love. Whatever you gain, brings others in disadvantage. This is the most important message I saw in this movie. A beautiful Korean fantasy story.

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