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Thai movie กลกามแห่งความรัก / Twilight in Tokyo was released in year 1989 and lasts 1h28mn. The movie was released under VCD and VHS format. Movie director is Toranong Srichua. This movie is not a rated R movie, but it is a social movie about the burden of Thai prostitutes working abroad. In 1989, this movie got Thai movie "best scenario" award (รางวัลตุ๊กตาทอง). In the 1980s many poor Thai girls went to work as prostitutes in Japan hoping to earn more money compared to working in Thailand. Movie director Toranong Srichua wanted to show their fate through his movie. He went to Japan with a 32 person team for 15 days to shoot the movie. Even a Yakuza gang (แก๊งยากูซ่า) helped to close Shinjuku street (ถนนชินจูกุ) for 5 hours. Actress Darin Kornsakoon became famous thanks to this role. Toranong Srichua wanted a new actress for his movie to avoid people to match the main actress with her previous roles. In the 1980s, movies were shown in a limited number of cinemas in Bangkok. Toranong Srichua's movies often got only secondary grade cinemas, but thanks to "Twilight in Tokyo" movie, the film was released in first grade cinemas and it was full at each session. The movie deals about a young Thai lady, Waew (Darin Kornsakoon), sent to Japan to become an escort girl (โสเภณี). Her parents are poor farmers. Waew is the elder sister and has decided to sell her body in Tokyo in order to support her parents and younger sister (น้องสาว). She discovers the sad life there, the huge debt to pay back. Anyway she supports her family by sending money back home. She wishes her father would build a new house instead of the shack, in which they are living. Homesick, she goes back home and discovers that her father has lost all the money she has sent due to unscrupulous investments and gambling (การพนัน), her mother has become a nun (บวชชี), her sister is partying everyday after learning that Waew is a prostitute. The younger sister's morality is tarnished by living in Bangkok. Money has destroyed her family (เสียผู้เสียคน). Fed up by her family who doesn't understand and is not compassionate about her burden, she goes back to Japan. Disappointed by her pimp's (Likit Eakmongkol) selfishness, she kills herself. Due to low education, many Thai prostitutes and their poor families were unable to manage a large sum of money. Earned money was often spent and squandered in a short amount of time.

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