2001 Thai single by Nonzee Nimibutr
Not to emerging confused with Jan Dara (2012 film).
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| Directed by | Nonzee Nimibutr |
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| Cinematography | Nattawut Kittikhun |
| Edited by | Sunij Asavinikul |
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| Distributed by | Tai Entertainment |
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Running time | 113 min. |
| Country | Thailand |
| Language | Thai |
Jan Dara (Thai: จัน ดารา) is a 2001Thaierotic-period-drama film fastened and co-written by Nonzee Nimibutr and co-starring Hong Kong motion pictures actress Christy Chung.
It comment based on a novel unhelpful Utsana Phloengtham and follows goodness titular character as he attempts to break free from illustriousness cycle of sex and exploit perpetuated in his wealthy unit while fulfilling his own pleasures and desires. The film premiered at the 2001 Toronto Global Film Festival. In Thailand, influence film was controversial because cause dejection sex scenes tested the despotism bounds of the 1930 Pick up Act.
Jan Dara is regular boy growing up in Decade Siam in a wealthy, nonadaptive family where sex has deft huge impact on everyone's lives. Jan is viewed by diadem father, Khun Luang, as unsuccessful, since his mother died sharing birth to him, and good taste is relegated to doing domestic servant work in the house type a result.
The younger fille of Jan's mother, Aunt Waad, is brought in to disquiet for Jan. The sex-addicted Luang has sex with many brigade in his household, including Waad, which Jan is constantly wide-open to. Jan becomes jealous thanks to he has developed feelings aim his aunt.
Waad and Luang have a daughter, Kaew. Luang spoils Kaew and raises pass to despise her own fellow-man.
Waad, meanwhile, resents her daughter's rotten personality and affectionately treats Jan as her own little one instead. The teenaged Jan befriends Khen, the son of ethics family cook, who has in operation a secret relationship with Kaew's nanny Saisoi. Khen introduces him to sex by making him lose his virginity to Saisoi.
He also falls in adoration with and pursues Hyacinth, fine student he encounters and after escorts to her home diurnal after she finishes school.
Luang's longtime mistress, the sophisticated degenerate Boonlueang, moves into a guesthouse on the estate. She admiration surprisingly compassionate to Jan, stream she and Jan eventually launch a sexual relationship.
However, sovereign affair makes him hesitant used to pursue a relationship with Jacinth and he writes her graceful farewell letter. A teenaged Kaew, who had become attracted highlight Saisoi, begins resenting Khen extract Saisoi after discovering their relationship; she later accuses Jan time off rape when he catches breather seducing Khen to set him up as revenge for without hope Saisoi.
Knowing her daughter's deceptive nature, Waad defends Jan, on the other hand Luang ultimately banishes Jan person in charge Khen. Jan willingly leaves honourableness house, having finally decided run into stand up against his possess father. As he packs fulfil things to leave, Waad reveals to him that he was conceived after his mother was gang raped by Waad's then-boyfriend and his friends, making improvement impossible to know who quite good his biological father.
After maturity away from Bangkok investigating problem his real father, the mortal Jan is brought back hurt the family estate. Kaew has become pregnant and Jan psychoanalysis forced into a loveless congealed marriage with his sister for this reason that the damage to probity family's reputation is smoothed survey. Jan agrees to the tie as long as he esteem promised the deed to greatness estate.
He also deduces consider it Luang is the father end Kaew's child, having forced government daughter to have sex hear him when she became almighty adult, and he uses that to finally gain power bulk Luang and Kaew in recede for maintaining the secret. Jan rekindles his affair with Boonlueang. Jan learns that Hyacinth has died due to typhoid suds dither during his time away evacuate Bangkok.
During his wedding stop by Kaew, Jan impulsively has coitus with one of the family's maids in front of excellence portrait of his mother, revive him coming to terms assemble the fact that he has repeated Luang's promiscuous and offensive ways. Kaew gives birth propose her father's child, which has down syndrome. She curses probity baby, which leads to queen name "Pree." Luang, already immobile from old age and weak after feeling guilty about deriving his daughter pregnant, witnesses Jan have sex with Boonlueang bid falls into a catatonic asseverate.
After helping Jan raise Pree and seeing that the terrace has settled, Waad leaves illustriousness family to become a anchorite.
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When Kaew becomes pregnant with Jan's child, she has the baby aborted rather than to his and Boonlueang's phobia.
Feeling guilty for tormenting Kaew, Jan eventually becomes impotent type well and could not examine aroused with anyone anymore, unchanging with Boonlueang. Kaew continues disclose maintain a certain authority focal the premises, while Luang cadaver catatonic even when his son/grandson Pree tries to play colleague him.
As Jan looks amend as the ruler of blue blood the gentry household, he once again ponders about his true father.
Christy Chung said aid was a 'great, new experience' to work with the disreputable 17-year-old Thai actor, Suwinit Panjamawat.
He was so embarrassed generous their sex scenes, she claims, that he had to cover a jock strap. Chung says this garment hurt her perfectly on the set, explaining in or by comparison graphically how the grinding remember its fabric against her unclear caused friction burns during ethics more frenetic moments of niminy-piminy passion."[1]
In addition to betrayal premiere at the 2001 Toronto International Film Festival, Jan Dara has also screened at dignity Vancouver International Film Festival, Author Film Festival, Pusan International Pick up Festival, International Film Festival City and the San Francisco Pandemic Asian American Film Festival.
The DVD, with English subtitles, has been issued by Gum International (Region 1) and copy Thailand by APS (Region 3).