Thai movies/drama thread

[prizzi_65]

A word of advice for those who are planning to buy DVD less than 100baht (original ones, not copies). I was staying in Bangkok for several months and was a sucker for buying cheap DVD with english subs. I have as many as a dozen DVDs with that price range. So far, only 3 movies was worth the money. The rest I cannot even last half the movie before switching it off.

I love to buy Concert DVD. I bought Palmy, Bird and Masha concerts. They are quite good. I am a big fan of Palmy followed by Bird.

I would love to buy Karaoke DVD but I do not know where to find them. I want to collect Palmy's Karaoke MTV.

[suteerak1099]

The Letter (Thai: ดอะเลตเตอร์ จดหมายรัก or Jod mai rak, literally "love letter"), a remake of the korean version Pyeon ji, from 1997. rather draggy romance flick i find, needless to say tears triggering for the sentimental ones, so if u're watching it with your squeeze, u might wanna bring along a box of kleenex, so she can reel while she sobs.

i rate it: 4* out of a possible 5*

Directed by: Pa-oon Chantornsiri
Produced by: Duangkamol Limcharoen, Nonzee Nimibutr, Somsak Techaratanaprasert
Written by: Kongdej Jaturanrasamee
Starring: Anne Thongprasom, Attaporn Teemakorn
Music by: Boyd Kosayapong, Chartchai Pongprapapan
Cinematography: Naruepol Chokkanapitaks
Editing by: Patamanadda Yukol

Synopsis
Dew (Anne Thongprasom) is a young computer programmer who meets Ton (Attaporn Teemakorn) in Chiang Mai during her distant cousin's funeral. They immediately become attracted to each other and start to date each other over the phone.

Back in Bangkok on Valentine's Day, Dew refuses to accompany her best friend, Ked, to a blind date because she is anxiously waiting for Ton's phone call. The consequence of this breaks Dew's heart as her friend is murdered by the blind date.

Dew immediately leaves for Chiang Mai and finds comfort in Ton. The two start a serious relationship and marry soon after. However, their new-found happiness is cut short when Ton dies of a brain tumor. Dew is again left alone.

Before leaving for Bangkok, she receives a mysterious letter, seemingly from her dead husband. As it turns out, Ton had written a series of letter prior to his death and arranged for them to be sent after his death to his widow. The letters help Dew through her grief. She finally is able to live without the love of her life and continues to live in Chiang Mai with their son, born after the death of his father.

Poduction & release
The Letter was the last film produced by Duangkamol Limcharoen before she died on December 8, 2003, at age 39. Director Pa-oon Chantornsiri, making her first feature film, agreed to take on the project, as a favor to her producer-friend. [1]

Starring popular Thai soap opera actress Anne Thongprasom, the film was a hit at the local box office. Facial tissues were handed out in front of cinemas for free in anticipation of the audiences' reactions to the final scenes.

"It's an effective melodrama, a movie of well-executed cliches and retro sensibilities," wrote Bangkok Post film critic King Rithdee. "But only Anne's performance – especially her ability to switch on a fountain of tears – conceals the insubstantial nature of the film's build-up and its banal, I-love-you-forever kind of dialogue. Don't forget to bring a handkerchief. Or better still, a towel."[2]

Variety critic Russell Edwards called the film "slow-moving" and "glossy". "[It] doesn't just tug on the heartstrings but uses them to drop anchor in a sea of schmaltz.

Festivals & awards
Anne Thongprasom won for Best Actress at the Thailand National Film Association Awards. The film also won for Best Original Song, "Mai Mee Chai Mai", by Chartchai Pongprapapan.

The Letter was screened at the 2004 Pusan International Film Festival.

source for reference

[lazydudz]

bros alone or shutter more scary?

[cyrus]

Originally Posted by lazydudz

bros alone or shutter more scary?

I think both are just as good and I got both original DVD. Just my 2 satang worth.

[Mr.romantic]

Originally Posted by suteerak1099

The Letter (Thai: ดอะเลตเตอร์ จดหมายรัก or Jod mai rak, literally "love letter"), a remake of the korean version Pyeon ji, from 1997. rather draggy romance flick i find, needless to say tears triggering for the sentimental ones, so if u're watching it with your squeeze, u might wanna bring along a box of kleenex, so she can reel while she sobs.

i rate it: 4* out of a possible 5*

diam lah sad fukk! dare to post here but don't dare to post at Golden Mile Complex Disco thread?

only know how to ask people to mass zap me. fat hope! there will be more entertainment of the GM Disco clowns for all to see here. haha. so is JWNY the GM Disco Clowns leader now or? if not better advise these clowns to wake up their idea and don't talk big until buay gia lang du lan.

[vmtech]

Anyone has Midnight My Love CD1?
My CD1 is corrupted and im thinking of sharing this movie with bros here but im left with only CD2.

Anyone has CD1 too, please contact me via PM

Thanks

[Bonker911]

Pee Lieng Luk Kon or Ghost Mother

Starring Aum Patchrapa.

[Bonker911]

Originally Posted by vmtech

Anyone has Midnight My Love CD1?
My CD1 is corrupted and im thinking of sharing this movie with bros here but im left with only CD2.

Bro, could you post CD2 first? Tks.

Saw it on YouTube and the movie was good... nice ending.

[JWNY]

Originally Posted by Mr.romantic

so is JWNY the GM Disco Clowns leader now or? if not better advise these clowns to wake up their idea and don't talk big until buay gia lang du lan.

No i am not...let's move on with the thread please

JWNY

[JWNY]

Crime film by Thai director Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, with screenplay by Prabda Yoon, cinematography by Christopher Doyle, and starring Tadanobu Asano – all people that Pen-Ek had worked with on his previous film, Last Life in the Universe. It had its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival and was also shown at the 2006 Bangkok International Film Festival and the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival.

JWNY

Invisible Waves - คำพิพากษาของมหาสมุทร

Director - Pen-Ek Ratanaruang

Producer - Hiromi Aihara / Faruk Alatan / Wouter Barendrecht / Winnie Lau / Miky Lee / Mingmonkul Sonakul / Michael J. Werner / Daniel Yu Wai-Kwok

Cast - Tadanobu Asano / Toon Hiranyasap / Kang Hye-jeong / Ken Mitsuishi / Eric Tsang / Maria Cordero

Plot:

Kyoji is a cook living in Macau. He works for a Thai restaurant in Hong Kong and has been having an affair with Seiko, the wife of his boss, Wiwat, who orders Kyoji to poison her. After the deed is done, Kyoji is ordered to leave Hong Kong. He consults with the mysterious Monk, who gives him money and advice to contact Lizard. Kyoji then boards a cruise ship, and is given a small, dreary cabin belowdecks, where nothing seems to work properly. In trying to find his way back topside, he gets lost. Finally, up on deck, he meets Noi. Noi has a baby named Nid, whom Kyoji finds hanging on the deck rail in a harness, where Noi left the child while she was swimming. Eventually, the ship reaches its destination, Phuket, Thailand, where real life-or-death adventures begin for Kyoji as he starts to put the pieces together about what he's done.

[vmtech]

UPLOADING , AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD SOON

Midnight My Love
Director: Kongdej Jaturanrasmee
Cast: Petchtai Wongkamlao a.k.a Mum Jokmok a.k.a “Dirty Balls”, Woranut Wongsawan
Year: 2005
Running Time: 91 minutes

Subtitles: English & Chinese



Film Summary:

a lonely set in his ways middle age taxi driver, and he keeps his typical humor tied in a straightjacket as he remains passive and almost uncommunicative throughout the film. Much of this as viewers learn later is due to a shocking episode in his past that seems to have sucked the life out of him. He does the late shift on the empty streets of Bangkok and prefers it that way – when he can drive and listen to a radio station that plays old fashioned ballads, radio soap operas and reads letters from the lovelorn and lost in the big city. His days pass one like every other one as he isolates himself from all but a few other taxi drivers.



One evening he sees a young woman being mistreated by a man, but minds his own business and drives away – but a few nights later he picks her up along with her co-workers in front of a large massage parlor and drives her home. He begins to make a point of being there at the closing hour every night and soon Nual (Woranut – a TV soap star) begins to hire him to take her home every night and slowly tries to bring him out of his shell by treating him to McDonalds and shopping in the mall. As lovely as she is, she is just as empty in her own way – losing a bit of her soul to every client that chooses her behind the glass fishbowl. Bati writes to the radio DJ “Our jobs are similar. Once I’ve delivered my passenger I don’t know where to go because the destination was not mine. It is the same with her”

But just as you begin to lie back in comfort waiting for the inevitable romance to take place, the film suddenly takes a startling dark turn that throws many of these expectations into a drainage ditch, but when all seems lost an ending that seems inspired by the ending of “Comrades: A Love Story” will warm your cold heart and colder feet. There are no passionate fireworks in the film – it is extremely simple and much of the time it is Bati just listening to his station and imagining himself in the radio soaps (the only sections where Jokmok is more like his usual self as he parodies them wonderfully). As good as Woranut is – and she received a Thai film nomination for her role – the fact that she is stunningly lovely makes the romance take on a bit of a fantasy aspect – it really is hard to imagine her with the suppressed much older Bati – but nevertheless you sure want them to be. This is the director’s second film – his first was the well-received Sayew and he also wrote the script to “The Letter”, a very popular tear drenched romance from a few years ago.


Other movies available soon: (Upon Request)

Colic
The Commitment
Mercury Man
Phee Borb (The Possessed)
Tom Yum Goong

[keane16]

Originally Posted by JWNY

[SIZE="3"][FONT="Garamond"]Crime film by Thai director Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, ....

bro JWNY

me a big fan of pen-ek ratanaruang aft watchin his 'last life in the universe' ... u know any place i can get the dvd (with english/chinese subtitle) ??

many many thx in advance ....

[keane16]

Originally Posted by suteerak1099

u already prepared a DVD shopping list, just show it to the shop attendent and hope for the best. ...

did that, but only managed to get 1 out of 11 that i m lookin for ...

Originally Posted by suteerak1099

... if u're roaming siam area, then the places u can try r typically; MBK, siam central, siam square. dont underestimate some of the smaller joints, they just might have what u're looking for, sometimes might also have bootleg productions. ....

thx for the info ...

actually did found a store near sukhumvit soi 14 selling lots of art house film (mostly foreign film) ... but a bit ex ...

[JWNY]

Originally Posted by keane16

bro JWNY

me a big fan of pen-ek ratanaruang aft watchin his 'last life in the universe' ... u know any place i can get the dvd (with english/chinese subtitle) ??

many many thx in advance ....

Suteerak1099 did a review of that movie earlier in the thread look for it!

I always buy from here - www.ethaicd.com (no subtitles though)

JWNY

[vmtech]

can anyone with accounts in mediafire log in thier account ?

Cant seem to log in nor create new account. was trying to upload the Midnight My Love but cant log in.

Can anyone?