# Ghost Banana Tree

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{{short description|Cambodian movie based on a ghost story}}
{{Infobox film
 | name = Ghost of Banana Tree
 | image    = Ghostbanana.jpg
 | caption  = Poster for {{cn span|date=July 2025|reason=[talk:Ghost Banana Tree#title?](/source/talk%3AGhost_Banana_Tree)|"Ghost of Banana Tree"}}
 | director = [Heng Tola](/source/Heng_Tola)
 | producer = Heng Tola
 | writer   = [Mao Samnang](/source/Mao_Samnang)
 | starring = Sang Posda<br>Ly Taro
 | distributor = Campro production
 | released = {{Film date|2004|07|24|[Cambodia](/source/Cambodia)|df=yes}}
 | runtime  = 120 minutes
 | country  = Cambodia
 | language = Khmer
 | budget   =
}}
'''''Ghost of Banana Tree''''' ({{langx|km|ខ្មោចដើមចេកជ្វា|Khmaôch Daeum Chék Chvéa}}) is a [2005](/source/2005_in_film) film. It is a [Cambodian horror film](/source/Horror_films_of_Cambodia) based on a [Cambodia](/source/Cambodia)n ghost story about a vengeful ghost haunting a banana tree and killing her husband. It is the fourth horror film by [Campro Production](/source/Campro_Production), following ''Neang Neath'', ''[The Forest](/source/The_Forest_(2005_film))'', and ''[The Haunted House](/source/The_Haunted_House_(2005_film))''.

==Plot==
The story is based on a Khmer tale. A man goes abroad for business. While he is away, his wife falls ill and dies. Her vengeful spirit begins to haunt the people of the village. The husband returns and believes his wife's ghost is actually his living wife until her ghost's arm grows unnaturally long. He flees the house for help, but, even after a proper Khmer burial, his wife's ghost follows him to a [Buddhist](/source/Buddhist) monk's house, where he has sought safety. As he recites prayers, his wife's ghost climbs one of the many nearby banana trees to enter the house through a window. (It is traditionally considered inauspicious by the [Khmer](/source/Khmer_people) to grow banana trees close to a house, especially near a window.) She kills her husband, and the film ends with the couple's spirits flying to begin their next life together.

==Origins==
The film is based on a [Cambodia](/source/Cambodia)n legend, marketed by Campro Production as a true event, which occurred at least during the 16th century. A folk belief, which many Khmer still follow, stems from this legend, forbidding people from planting banana trees next to their houses as a ghost spirit could enter the house by climbing in on a banana leaf. If there was already a banana tree growing close by, all of the banana tree's leaves touching or near the house would be cut off for safety.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.khmer.org/product/0,prod,0,0,0,2947,0.htm|title=ghost of a banana tree|accessdate=2008-11-13|publisher=Khmer.org|archive-url=https://archive.today/20060409080240/http://www.khmer.org/product/0,prod,0,0,0,2947,0.htm|archive-date=2006-04-09|url-status=dead}}</ref> This centuries-old tradition is most common in more remote areas today.

==See also==
*''[Nang Tani](/source/Nang_Tani)''
*[List of ghost films](/source/List_of_ghost_films)

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://archive.today/20060409080240/http://www.khmer.org/product/0,prod,0,0,0,2947,0.htm Official Website]
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Category:2004 horror films
Category:2004 films
Category:Cambodian horror films
Category:Folk horror films
Category:Films directed by Heng Tola
Category:Films about trees
Category:Cambodian legends

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