Word: nang
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...Dara is the most anticipated Thai film in years for a couple of reasons. It will be Nonzee's third movie, and his first two, Dan Bireley and the Young Gangsters and Nang Nak, both broke box office records in Thailand. Nang Nak went on to tour the European festival circuit, where Nonzee was proclaimed something of a wing-collar art house director, giving Thailand a seat at the ongoing banquet of honor being served up to Asian filmmakers. Indeed, the new movie is being produced by Hong Kong's Peter Ho-Sun Chan, who directed The Love Letter...
...fame of the book, a tale of guilt and retribution told through a prism of frank sexuality, is such that many directors wanted to film it, but Nonzee was the producer's first choice after the success of Nang Nak. Jan Dara, the curious but ultimately doomed main character (played by Thai TV actor Eakarat Sarsukh), is abandoned from the start of his life: his mother dies during childbirth and his father brands him a bastard. (The boy's first memory of his father is watching him have sex with a nanny.) At 13, he is thrown...