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Year 2004
Year: 2004
Thai title: หมานคร
English title: Citizen dog
Rating: 4/5
Director: Wisit Sasanatieng
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Pod quits his countryside to find a job in Bangkok. He works first in a factory and then in an office as security guard. He meets Jin who is working as a cleaning lady. Jin is obsessed with cleaning. She also searching for the meaning inside a white book she found earlier. Jin barely notices Pod's adoration, while Pod can never really communicate his love despite all his desperate attempts. Pot even decides to become taxi driver to have chance to stay longer time everyday with Ning while driving her to office. Believing that her white book was written by an environmentalist, she decides to demonstrate everyday against the usage of plastic bags and to help for recycling plastic bottles. She collects so many bottles that a huge montain made of plastic bottles emerges in Bangkok. The film's philosophy is that "if you look too hard for something, you won't see it right in front of you". This strikingly visual film with an optimistic mood earned only a meagre five million baht but it has received a Thailand National Film Association Award for Best visual effects. This movie has also been registered as National Heritage per the 2016 list released by the Thai Film Archive.
Year: 2004
Thai title: ชู้
English title: The sin
Rating: 3/5
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Main actor: Sorapong Chatree,Piya Trakulrard
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Dhep haven't seen his father since 10 years. He is now a traveling photographer on his way home to solve problems with his father. On the way home, he meets a young woman called Riam and falls in love with her. But she is his father's new young wife. Dhep stays at their place and understands that Riam faces same problems as his mother 10 years ago before her suicide. He tries to treat Riam kindly but a forbidden love rears its head and the pair decides to make a go of it. But Dhep's father is a very jealous man...
Year: 2004
Thai title: เดอเลตเตอร์ - จดหมายรัก
English title: The letter
Rating: 3/5
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Main actress: Ann Thongprasom
A modern Bangkokian lady called Dew went to Chiang Mai for her grandmother's death. There, she met Ton, a kind officer at an agricultural research center. Dew started to feel true love for Ton. They then married and began a peaceful life together. Everything was fine until Ton started dying of a brain tumor. After Ton's death, something strange happens: she still receives love letters from Ton. How is it possible?
Year: 2004
Thai title: มนต์รักลูกทุ่ง
English title: The Field of Love
Rating: 3/5
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Main actor: Krung Srivilai,Phairoj Jaising
Main actress: Namgneun Boonnak
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This folk-music movie is a remake of one of the most famous Thai movie (มนต์รักลูกทุ่ง) shot in 1970. It features 14 folk songs or "LUUK THUNG" songs. It is about a love story between a poor peasant, Klao, and a young woman, Thong Kwao, coming from a rich family. Thong Kwao's parents are worried about the family assets if their daughter marries a poor man so they send her to Bangkok so that she can be far away from Klao. Thong Kwao's parents refuse Klao's proposal for marriage and request an expensive dower (ค่าสินสอด), i.e. 100 000 Baht. Various misunderstandings happen between Klao and Thong Kwao but love will win.
Year: 2004
Thai title: ทวิภพ
English title: The Siam renaissance
Rating: 5/5
Director: Surapong Pinijkhar
Main actor: Nirut Sirijanya
Main actress: Florence Faivre
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Thai movie ทวิภพ / The Siam Renaissance was released in year 2004 and lasts 1h57mn. It was released under VCD and DVD format. It was the first movie for Thai French actress Florence Faivre. Movie director is Surapong Pinijkhar. The movie is featuring enthralling music and features beautiful image shooting to depict the past. It took Surapong Pinijkhar one year to make this movie. The director Surapong Pinijkhar was then sick for many years due to a blood vessel issue in the brain and was half paralyzed. The movie takes place in Rama IV period despite the real story happening in Rama V period. This version is more elaborated on historical details than the previous versions. The 1990 version was shot by famous director Cherd Songsri. It has also be adapted for TV CH7 in 1994 (with Saranyu Wongkrachang) and 2011 as a Thai TV serie (ละคร). It was also adapted as a Musical and a cartoon. One of the highlights of the movie is the true statement that Thai modern people read only six lines a year! The movie had a high budget but was not a commercial success. This movie is part of the first 25 films heritage list announced on October 4, 2011, which is Thai Movies Conservation Day. Thai lady Manee (Florence Faivre) is a Paris-based archive specialist. A mysterious French old work 'The Voyageur', written by French author Francois-Xavier is brought to her for interpretation at the Thai consulate in Paris. Manee is agitated by the record's allusions to Siam's past. Her father is a famous professor. She never got real love from her parents, who were always busy. They are divorced. Her father (Nirut Sirijanya) believes ‘The Voyageur’ is just a tale (นิยาย) as it contains many inaccuracies. When she returns to Thailand, she finds herself going back and forth in time between the present day and the time of Siam's exploitation by French and British colonialists. It starts in 1855. Manee finds herself in Doctor Bradley’s home, who is the former resident in her own home! Thai people are puzzled by Manee as she can read, write and speak French and English. She meets Francois- Xavier, a French writer. She explains the future to some Thai people, but they doubt and even think she is playing a double game as a spy. The British ambassador is coming to negotiate a commercial treaty with Siam. The trade treaty is unfair but Manee argues it is better to accept instead of providing good reason for Britain to invade Siam. Siam's secret weapon is a library as only knowledge increase will help Siam to compete with Western powers. Manee learns much about her country's history (Thai Longitude 0 was in Bangkok at Wat Phra Kaew and set up by King Mongkut) and becomes a fighter alongside her ancestors. She finds valuable lessons in life and love along the way with soldier Thep. Manee wishes to help her fellow Thai friends against greedy French colonialism. Thailand is used as a buffer between English and French possessions. It is seen this way by England but France forces Siam to abandon some of their own possessions such as the Khmer kingdom by threatening using gunships. French consul sees Thai people as barbarians and has no respect for their traditions. Sometimes changes are good and needed. Manee is upset that mistakes in the past cannot be changed such as the failed love between her parents but people tried their best. By knowing the future, she finally influences the past. She prevents Siam from falling to France. 38 years have passed. Thailand is defeated at Paknam by French gunships (14 July 1893 Paknam incident). Siam loses east of Mekong riverbanks. Siam has to pay a huge fee despite French only losing three men versus Siam who lost many lives including Thep. Siam kept its integrity despite losing big parts of territory and Manee has lost her love. Manee has stayed in the past and her father is aware of it as he saw some pictures of Manee and Thep together. Some movies deleted scenes are also available. In one scene, Manee meets Anna Leonowens, an English schoolteacher in Siam, who became the teacher of King Mongkut's children and wives. In another scene, Anna Leonowens brings Manee to see the King’s harem.
Year: 2004
Thai title: โหมโรง
English title: The overture
Rating: 5/5
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Main actor: Phongphat Wachirabanjong,Adul Dulyarat,Somphob Benjatikul
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A young man, Sorn, has a great passion for the ranad ek (ระนาดเอก), Thai xylophone. He was so skilled that he became a royal musician. However Sorn became too proud and was defeated in a competition by a rival. Sorn was able to learn from this failure. Sorn becomes a well-respected musical teacher in the period under Field Marshall Pibulsongkram. It was a time when the government strictly controlled the performance of traditional music, which was deemed "uncivilised". Under the policy of nationalism, the government ordered that folk artists had to have a license to perform in public. The passionate music teacher refused to obey the state's restrictions until the very last moment of his life. Despite its slow start, The overture movie became a box office success due to the attendance of one of Thailand's most prominent ranad players, HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn.
Year: 2004
Thai title: ซีอุย
English title: Zee Oui
Rating: 2/5
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Main actor: Chatchai Plengpanich
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Zee Oui is a Chinese emigrant looking for work in Thailand. He is coming just after World War II and faces harsch discrimination from his Thai coworkers. He is working hard but fails to gain enough money. He is sick having tuberculosis. He decides to go back to China. Being very sick, he loses his mind and remembers the time when his mother cured him with a soup containing a heart extracted from an executed prisoner. He then killed a few Thai children in order to drink a similar soup. Police and two journalists are doing the enquiry to catch the children killer.
Year: 2004
Thai title: สุริยะฆาต
English title: Curse of the sun
Rating: 1/5
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This B-grade Thai movie is about supernatural events happening during an eclipse. A rich heiress, Jiratikan , is shot and her boyfriend has a deadly car accident during the eclipse. Her brother in law planed to get rid of Jiratikan to get her money and so engaged a black magic sorcerer. This latter uses dead men and transform them into zombies to try to kill Jiratikan . He even uses Jiratikan 's dead boyfriend. Hopefully, a young policeman is here to protect Jiratikan and investigates on these mysterious assassination attempts.
Year: 2004
Thai title: 102 ปิดกุรงเทพปล้น
English title: Bangkok Robbery
Rating: 3/5
Director: Thanit Jitnukul
Main actor: Chatchai Plengpanich,Amphol Lumpoon
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The Thai Government's declaration to settle debts with the IMF inspires a powerful secret organization to plan a robbery of the national properties. Leader Nawin, a former experienced soldier, heads up the mission, and must go head-to-head with talented undercover detective Pakorn, who's bidding to halt Nawin and his team. Both men have just 102 hours to successfully complete their respective missions.
Year: 2004
Thai title: คนเล่นของ
English title: Art of The Devil
Rating: 3/5
Director: Thanit Jitnukul
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Main actress: Supaksorn Chaimongkol
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A married man, Prathan, maintained an amorous relationship with a young lady called Boom. But when he learned that Boom had fallen pregnant, he dumped her. But Boom cast a black magic curse, killing Prathan while Boom reaped the profits of his wealth, as she carried his son. But when her son died during an accident, Boom's fortune went to another minor wife of Prathan, Kamala, and her children. So Boom reclaims what she believes is rightfully hers, so she uses black magic to kill them one by one to achieve her goal.
Year: 2004
Thai title: ชัตเตอร์ กดติดวิญญาณ
English title: Shutter
Rating: 4/5
Director: Parkpoom Wongpoom
Main actor: Ananda Everingham
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A young photographer, Thun, and his girlfriend, Jane, accidentally crash a young woman with their car on their way back from a party. They decide to leave the dead woman and drive away. They start discovering mysterious shadows in their photographs. As they investigate the phenomenon, they find other photographs contain similar supernatural images linked to the young woman. Thun's best friends are also being haunted and Jane discovers that her boyfriend has not told her everything... Shutter was Thailand's Number One local box hit for 2004. A Hollywood remake of Shutter was done in 2008. The Culture Ministry registers 25 Thai classic films each year at the National Film Heritage Registry. This movie is part of the 25 films heritage list announced on 04 October 2015, which is Thai Movies Conservation Day.
Year: 2004
Thai title: ตุ๊กแกผี
English title: Lizard Woman
Rating: 2/5
Director: Manop Udomdej
Main actor: Pete Thongjure
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A writer has just finished her latest book which is a story about an evil lizard. She comes face to face with strange apparitions and a supernatural curse with lizards, but nobody believes her. Her boyfriend suggests her to go seeing a doctor for analysis, but she refuses. She soon realizes that her life is endangered and starts to discover a way to stop it without knowing that she may be the cause of this mysterious evil.
Year: 2004
Thai title: อาถรรพ์แก้บนผี
English title: The commitment
Rating: 2/5
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A group of friends from Bangkok decide to visit an abandoned house inhabited by a spirit who has the power to grant wishes, if promised the appropriate offering. With their graduation getting closer and closer, most of them pray for decent grades, but one of them, a skeptical girl called Moss, makes a mocking pledge that she will do anything in return for the satisfaction of her friend's desires. while their friends are careful to make sure they provide the promised offerings as their wishes are fulfilled, Muay, Pin, and Moss are not so diligent. Before long all three are subjected to a series of bloody manifestations, courtesy of an angry and vengeful spirit determined to collect what is owed.
Year: 2004
Thai title: เปรต ร.ศ. หกสิบเก้า
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Rating: 3/5
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Main actress: Intira Jaroenpura
Prets (เปรต) are creatures that suffer as a result of their bad deeds in their previous lives. They are portrayed as extremely thin and tall. Their mouths are as small as a pinhole so they are always hungry as they cannot find enough food to feed them. They are moaning loudly out of intense pain and suffering. This movie takes place in the 1800s. A "pret" ghost is seen by villagers at night time. The "pret" ghost killed a few villagers doing bad deeds such as robbing Buddha statues in temple or removing gold foil from Buddha images. Beung, a young man, believes the "pret" ghost manifestation is linked to the finding of an old Buddha statue. Beung is also fond of Samri, the daughter of the village headman. A local landlord comes to the village to evaluate the old Buddha statue. He also gets interested in Samri. With the help of the village headman, he decides to rob the old Buddha statue to sell it to a rich collector. The temple abbot is killed and Beung is accused of the murder. while bringring the statue back home and Beung to prison, the landlord's team is defeated by the "pret" ghost.
Year: 2004
Thai title: คน ผี ปีศาจ
English title: Evil
Rating: 4/5
Director: Chookiat Sakweerakul
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Main actress: Pumwaree Yodkamol,Amara Asavananda
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Young teenage girl Oui has lost her two parents. She is coming to stay in a relative's home (Pa Bua), which is located in the upper floors of a printing factory. Oui needs to share room with youngster Nong am. Only three people stay at home at night time (Pa Bua, Oui and Nong Am). Nobody else dares to stay. Pa Bua forces Nong Am to eat mysterious liver (บำรุงเลือด). Nong Am claims there are ghosts in the house. Oui often dreams about her parents. One night, while the father was changing a tyre on their car, two youngs men killed her parents to rob their belongings. So she eats medicine to forget and not to see things that she doesn't want to see. Nong Am has scars in the back. Pa Bua is also an Indian sorcerer (หมอผีแขก) and medium (คนทรง). While cleaning the Buddhist altar room (ห้องพระ), Oui hears mysterious voices. Pa Bua is in trance. Tiger shouts can be heard. Each morning all workers are amazed Oui is still here and alive. Oui has visions regarding her parents' killer. She believes he is waiting outside. What is the most dangerous? Being inside with ghosts or outside with the killer? Strange noises can be heard in the house when Pa Bua is outside. Pa Bua has locked the house. Oui decides to go on the second floor to decide if people or ghosts are staying there. Two people are furtively seen. One worker, Phi Sutchai, is helping her. Pa Bua comes back. She becomes crazy. Oui has visions as she cannot distinguish truth and dreams. Finally Pa Bua was killing the babysitters that were mistreating Nong Am and was hiding the bones inside the walls. When she was outside, the spirits were wandering and terrifying Nong Am. First-time director Chookiat Sakweerakul has made a smarter Thai horror movie. His impressive debut took only about 10 million baht in Thai box office.
Year: 2004
Thai title: Six หกตายท้าตาย
English title: Six
Rating: 4/5
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Main actor: Ray McDonald
Main actress: Intira Jaroenpura
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Fai is a lady having scary visions. She is mysteriously connected to the number "6", which is related to bad luck. On the night before her 24th birthday (2+4 = 6 and 6*4 = 24), her friends come to celebrate. The whole group is composed of 6 men and one woman, Fai. One of the friends foretells their future (ดูดวง) with tarots cards. They shall all die due to ghosts (ผีมีจริง). Following a visit to a Buddhist Thai temple and Chinese shrine to get protective items, they decide to find ghosts. On the way to an old mansion, they almost have a deadly traffic accident. Fai takes a picture of the group but the young men are not displayed on the picture... They reach the old abandoned mansion close to the sea. It looks like a haunted house with bats, rats, a mysterious hidden owner and a scary caretaker. A calling spirit ceremony (พิธีเรียกวิญญาณ) is performed. A woman spirit answers. Fai believes that the spirit wants them to achieve something. They found a room with 6 coffins. They put in place a network of small webcams and microphones in the house. Six of them performs a new calling spirit ceremony in six different rooms. Suspense is increasing. Woman cries are heard. Ravens attack. A ghost is seen. Blood spills. The batteries run out. Once the batteries are replaced, they have disappeared and finally are found in the coffins. All of them were involved in a murder 70 years ago. In fact they already died in the car accident when going to the house. The ghost already takes his revenge. All of them have died except Fai. This movie has a really nice photography. The suspense momentum gets increased very well.
Year: 2004
Thai title: คนเห็นผี 2
English title: The Eye 2
Rating: 4/5
Director: Oxide Pang,Danny Pang
Main actor: Jesdaporn Pholdee
Main actress: Shu Qi
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Joey, young and beautiful Hong Kong lady, is spending a lot of money on shopping in Bangkok to forget her problems. She even tries a suicide tentative because she can see ghosts. The tentative fails. She call a Thai man called Sam during her insomnia. The hotel sends Buddhist monks to chase the ghosts from her room. She goes back to Hong Kong. Her Thai boyfriend still refuses to answer to her calls. She still sees ghosts in many occasions, i.e. in restaurants, MTR train station, bathroom. She discovers that she is pregnant. She decides to see a medium expert and gets Buddhist explanations on her ghostly visions. The medium tells her that a ghost wishes to enter inside her womb and be reincarnated inside her baby. When somebody dies, the spirit shall be reincarnated. It is karma (กรรม) Buddhist belief. So she tries not to panic when seeing ghosts. People believe she is crazy so she is sent to hospital. She sees a spirit trying to enter her womb. A woman ghost is chasing her. She enquiries on women who got suicide in MTR train stations. She forces the ghost to come out by trying to hang up herself. She finds the ghost’s name is Michelle. By interviewing some of Michelle’s family members she finds that her boyfriend Sam was Michelle's husband! Sam couldn't see Joey anymore without thinking about Michelle's suicide. His wife is going to be his daughter! His wife got suicide as a retaliation on Sam having a mistress. Joey doesn't want Michelle to become her baby so she jumps from the hospital roof but fails to die. Finally the baby is born and Joey can live happily with her daughter as she accepts to leave with the moral burden that she has part of responsibility in Michelle’s death. "The Eye" movies are an horror series, with the latest one titled "The Child's Eye 3D" released in 2010.
Year: 2004
Thai title: 2508 ปิดกรมจับตาย
English title: Siamese Outlaws
Rating: 3/5
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Main actor: Sombat Methanee,Krung Srivilai,Ekapan Banleurit
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This movie is taken from real events of 1965, when a big market robbery occurred in Ayutthaya province. White Tiger, a notorious robber, teamed up with two gangs to carry out his plan. But teams betrayed each other before money sharing. A police inspector is then chasing them.
Year: 2004
Thai title: บอดี้การ์ดหน้าเหลี่ยม
English title: The bodyguard
Rating: 3/5
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Main actor: Mum Jokmok,Tony Jaa,Chusak Aiemsuk
Main actress: Aranya Namwong,Pumwaree Yodkamol
After the bodyguard fails to save his father's life, a young man refuses to be protected anymore by this man. But the new bodyguard guard team is wiped out by unknown gunmen and the young man hides in a slum. Following the young man's disappearance, the bodyguard searches for him to prevent the gunmen to find him first... This movie mixes action and comedy.
Year: 2004
Thai title: เกิดมาลุย
English title: Born to fight
Rating: 3/5
Director: Panna Rittikrai
Main actor: Santisuk Promsiri
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A Police team is successfully catching a ring leader selling drugs. Later on a sportmen team and the police inspector are going to a remote village in Northern Thailand to make donations (ของบริจาค). They feature demonstration of famous Thai sports (รำมวย, ตะกร้อ). The village is then attacked by mercenaries wearing a red scarf similar to Khmer Rouge soldiers. Santisuk Promsiri is playing the head of the mercenaries and excels in a bad guy role. The abbot, the headman of a tambon (กำนัน) and the village headman (ผู้ใหญ่บ้าน) are killed. All Thai authorities symbols are dead. The mercenaries take the whole village in hostage in order to negotiate the freedom for their group leader. The central power needs to help the provinces. The merciless mercenaries have a missile and threathen to launch it on Bangkok. Villagers shall decide to fight or die (ยอมตายหรือสู้). At 8 AM in the morning the villagers and sportsmen decide to rebel when listening to the King royal anthem. Everybody is fighting against the mercenaries, i.e. young, old, handicapped, men and women. The movie takes a nationalist turn and looks like a modern "Bang Rajan" as it also deals about a Thai village resistance against invaders. Similar to old 1970s action movies, the way for Thailand to survive is to protect the nation, the religion and the monarchy. Thanks to villagers collaboration and the sportmen skills, the mercenaries are defeated. With Panna Rittikrai as director, great cascades and explosions can be expected (ทำจริงเจ็บจริง). The director, Panna Rittikrai, is famous for stunt choreography. Panna released in 2004 his first big-budget studio movie called Born to Fight. He made no fewer than 50 budget movies during the past two decades. เกิดมาลุย is a remake of one of his first movies.
Year: 2004
Thai title: สายล่อฟ้า
English title: Pattaya Maniac
Rating: 3/5
Director: Yuthlert Sippapak
Main actor: Somchai Sakdikul,Chusak Aiemsuk
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Tun is a guy selling Buddha amulets. He has no girlfriend. One night at a Karaoke his best friend pays a girl, called Nok, to seduce him. Tun is not aware of the trick and falls in love with her. But Nok is already the girlfriend of a mafia boss, who asks for 3M Baht to release her. Tun and his best friend are getting in serious trouble to get the money...
Year: 2004
Thai title: ปล้นนะยะ
English title: Spicy Beautyqueen of Bangkok
Rating: 2/5
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Main actor: Vinai Kraibutr,Jaturong Mokjok
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4 travesties in desperate need of money decide to rob a bank in order to achieve their dream. Unfortunately the bank they started to rob is also the target of professional robbers. Who will get the money?
Year: 2004
Thai title: ผีหัวขาด 2
English title: Headless Hero 2
Rating: 2/5
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Two buddies, looking for gambling money, go to a graveyard to steal some cash from a Chinese corpse. Accidentally they spill some blood onto a headless corpse, which promply wakes up. The headless corpse starts to scare the villagers and is following a mysterious talisman quest.
Year: 2004
Thai title: รักเธอเท่าฟ้า
English title: Formalin man
Rating: 3/5
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Main actor: Sithao Petcharoen,Chusak Aiemsuk
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An owner of a "Luuk Tung" band is facing a difficult situation. He has to find money to pay for his debt and to save his band from being taken over. Unfortunately, he dies from a car crash accident before he could get the money. His spirit refuses to quit his body. His assistant keeps the secret and inject formalin in the body. The dead owner and his assistant are giving much efforts to keep the band united and find money.
Year: 2004
Thai title: ขุนกระบี่ผีระบาด
English title: SARS Wars
Rating: 5/5
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Main actor: Thep Po-ngam,Somchai Sakdikul
Main actress: Naowarat Yooktanun
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Sars decease spreads worldwide and reaches Thailand. The first to be contaminated is famous TV star Andrew Biggs! Andrew Biggs is television personality in Thailand. Meanwhile the daughter of a mafia leader, called Liu, is kidnapped and kept in the same building as Andrew biggs. A ten million baht ransom is requested. Police shall not be contacted to avoid the daughter facing serious trouble. The father hires a man, who recommends his best student called Nai. Nai speaks like an old style Ayutthaya soldier. Liu succeeds to escape her kidnappers and is rescued by Nai. Andrew Biggs has then become a zombie eating flesh and contaminates many other people in the building. The Thai government closes the building as the virus has spread inside. It is full of zombies. Liu and Nai cannot exit. One government doctor wishes to try her vaccin while another doctor wishes to destroy the whole building to eradicate the virus. This comedy movie mocks the infamous Thai cinema censors and OTOP products (One Tambon One Product). It features Thai classic gags including lady boys (กะเทย), flatulence, giant snake, crazy ghosts (ผีบ้า). It includes references to other foreign movies Jedi, Alien and Thai horror with baby spirits (กุมารทอง). Nai gets bitten also. His master (อาจารย์) comes to help. They suceed to defeat the giant snake and escape from the building. The kidnapper has disguised himself as Liu and so Nai has lost his virginity to a transsexual... Finally the real Liu is retrieved. The bad doctor is bitten by the zombie baby so the SARS decease is not stopped. This movie includes gore scenes with zombies and many funny gags. It really looks like a crazy sexy manga. This movie was not a big success at the Thai box office but it has become a cult movie outside Thailand.
Year: 2004
Thai title: แจ๋ว
English title: M.A.I.D. - Mission Almost Impossible Done
Rating: 2/5
Director: Yongyooth Thongkonthun
Main actor: Somchai Sakdikul
Main actress: Pornshita Na Songkhla
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In a secret mission, Prasert - an ex-policeman - uses four maids to investigate some hidden corruption in a casino establishment involving a high-level government official and a businessman. It is a funny, colourful and chaotic movie highlighting the idea of family and friendship. It is promoting regionalism with many different dialects to remind viewers that Thailand consists of people of many different cultures.
Year: 2004
Thai title: ธิดาช้าง
English title: Jumbo Queen
Rating: 1/5
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Main actress: Penpak Sirikul,Metta Roongrat
Noon is a fat woman but she is a good girl and has a kind heart. Noon has been abandoned by her father many years ago. Her father has bad attitude to obese people and pushes his second daughter to participate to a beauty contest. Noon decides to go to Bangkok to join and win Jumbo Queen contest in order to broadcast that she is her hidden daughter. Noon's father wants to stop her from being in the contest and tries to stop his daughter. Noon has to prove herself to her father that the merit is in the heart not in the size of the body.
Year: 2004
Thai title: เจ้าสาวผัดไทย
English title: Pad Thai Story
Rating: 3/5
Director:
Main actor: Thep Po-ngam,Somchai Sakdikul
Main actress: Mamee Nakprasitte
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Phet (เพชรา) is a young lady from a Thai Chinese family. Today there is happiness as it is her younger sister's wedding. She is still single (หาผัวไม่ได้). She puts hope in an office colleague but she discovers that he is gay. Phet losts her job but doesn't dare to announce this bad news to her father. The father is having a local restaurant business specialized in Thai Fried Noodles. She meets a teacher Surachat (อาจารย์สุระชาติ) but misunderstandings happen between them. Her father finally discovers she is out of job and she accepts to work as cook (แม่ค้าผัดไทย). There is tension between Soi (ซอย) inhabitants as a multinational company wishes to buy the houses in order to build a department store. Not all accept. One of the side-street leader is played by veteran actor Thep Po-ngam. He protests every day. Phet's father has a health weakness while Phet is out to watch a movie with the teacher. She has arguments with her sister claiming that as she cannot find a husband she should better take care of their father. Phet claims that whoever will come to eat 100 times to her Thai Fried Noodles shop will become her husband. This statement makes noise in the community. A TV producer learns about this and helps to organize a TV game. There is one million baht and Phet's hand for the winner. The game name is Thai Fried Noodles love (ความรักผัดไทย)! Feminist activists complain and call it ผัดไทยขายSex. Many people join (farang, indian, gay and even a former boyfriend Surachsi). Every day, a few people give up as they cannot stand Thai Fried Noodles overdose. At the end, only 3 candidates remain, a lady boy, the teacher and the former boyfriend. The teacher loses as Surachsi gives him a bad medicine to get sick (ท้องเสีย). He is finally qualified again as it is discovered that the lady boys were twins cheating. As the TV producer is found to be out of pennies, the former boyfriend stops also as he was only interested in money prize. Only the teacher remains and wins Phet's heart. The multinational company also finally gives up.
Year: 2004
Thai title: สัตว์ประหลาด
English title: Tropical Malady
Rating: 3/5
Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
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Tropical Malady is the first Thai film to win a Special Jury Prize at the Cannes International Film Festival. The two-part story begins with a love affair between a young soldier and a country boy in a remote village in Isan. The village's tranquillity is harmed by a wild beast slaughtering cattles. The second part involves the hunt for the wild beast in the jungle. The beast alternately resembles a tiger and the country boy. Viewers either love or hate this film!
Year: 2004
Thai title: ไอ้ฟัก
English title: The judgement
Rating: 4/5
Director: Patham Thonsang
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Main actress: Bongkoj Kongmalai
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Fak leaves the monkhood to care for his old father. When he returns home, he finds his father has married a much younger woman. She is beautiful but also mentally unbalanced. Then the father dies, leaving Fak to care for his insane stepmother. Soon Fak's neighbors in this remote village are gossiping about him. This rejection by the villagers sends Fak into a spiral of despair and it shows how a conformist streak in society can reduce a man to decadence. This movie is based on the novel 'คำพิพากษา' by Chart Korpjitti. It is the second movie based on Chart Korpjitti's novel. The first version was shot in 1989.
Year: 2004
Thai title: หมอเจ็บ
English title: The Extern
Rating: 2/5
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It is the story of two doctor externs, who are really different from the main stream. It deals about their studies, their exams and love. This movie enhances through comic sequences the importance of doctors in Thai society.
Year: 2004
Thai title: อมนุษย์
English title: Unhuman
Rating: 3/5
Director: Toranong Srichua
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When a huge meteor falls to earth in Surin provice, San and his school friends went to the site to take pictures. At the evening that meteor falls, three workmen whom fleed from a mysterious laboratory were killed, and their muscles had been torned out. Police and genetics experts started the investigation to find the truth of the death, and they found out the meteor has nothing to do with their deaths. The investigation leads to a secretive scientist who is conducting experimental work with human organs and working with a Cambodian witch.
Year: 2004
Thai title: ปักษาวายุ
English title: Garuda
Rating: 3/5
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Main actor: Phairoj Sangwaribut
Main actress: Sara Leigh
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Thai movie Garuda (ปักษาวายุ) was released in year 2004. In year 1977 an archaeologist dies after discovering an old teeth in India. The action jumps to year 2004 in Bangkok during MRT construction. A solid rock is found during tunnel excavation. It features a weird head similar to a dinosaur. Veena (Sara Leigh) wishes to study it but businessmen don't trust her as she is only half Thai (ลูกครึ่ง). Veena's father is the one who died in Egypt many years ago. She believes it could be a dinosaur linked to the mythical garuda. She goes back to Kalasin. One day her university lecturer calls her to come urgently to Bangkok. A secret entrance has been found behind the rock. Heavily armed (มีดหมอ) soldiers seem to be hiding a secret. Veena flees and through a diversion, her farang friend Hoi Tim cuts the electric generator but is awakening the beast (สัตรโบราณ) staying in a tree. The garuda beast does a rampage on soldiers. Veena is spared due to the teeth talisman of her father. Thai people believe it is a mystical animal (เป็นเทพ). Saen, leader of the soldiers, just wishes to avoid any more killings. The Garuda succeeds to escape from the cave and causes a rampage in Bangkok. Attracted by Veena's talisman, Saen succeeds to injure severely the garuda and kills it.
