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Fan chan

  • 2003
  • TV-PG
  • 1h 50m
IMDb RATING
7.9/10
2.5K
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Fan chan (2003)
ComedyRomance

A man returns to his village upon learning of his childhood sweetheart's impending marriage. His journey sparks vivid memories of 1980s rural Thailand, including school days, motorcycle ride... Read allA man returns to his village upon learning of his childhood sweetheart's impending marriage. His journey sparks vivid memories of 1980s rural Thailand, including school days, motorcycle rides with his father, and playtime with friends.A man returns to his village upon learning of his childhood sweetheart's impending marriage. His journey sparks vivid memories of 1980s rural Thailand, including school days, motorcycle rides with his father, and playtime with friends.

  • Directors
    • Vijjapat Kojiw
    • Songyos Sugmakanan
    • Nithiwat Tharatorn
  • Stars
    • Charlie Trairat
    • Focus Jirakul
    • Charwin Jitsomboon
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    7.9/10
    2.5K
    YOUR RATING
    • Directors
      • Vijjapat Kojiw
      • Songyos Sugmakanan
      • Nithiwat Tharatorn
    • Stars
      • Charlie Trairat
      • Focus Jirakul
      • Charwin Jitsomboon
    • 19User reviews
    • 4Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 3 wins & 2 nominations total

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    Charlie Trairat
    • Jeab
    Focus Jirakul
    • Noi-Naa
    Charwin Jitsomboon
    • Jeab as adult
    Wongsakorn Rassamitat
    • Jeab's father
    Anusara Chantarangsi
    • Jeab's mother
    • (as Arnudsara Jantarangsri)
    Nipawan Taveepornsawan
    • Noi-Naa's mother
    Prem Tinsulanonda
    • Self (on television)
    Aphichan Chaleumchainuwong
    • Dtee
    Preecha Chanapai
    • Noi-Naa's father
    Anyarit Pitakkul
    • Boy
    Yok Teeranitayatarn
    • Manoj
    Chaleumpol Tikumpornteerawong
    • Jack
    Thana Vichayasuranan
    • Prik
    • Directors
      • Vijjapat Kojiw
      • Songyos Sugmakanan
      • Nithiwat Tharatorn
    • All cast & crew
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    User reviews19

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    9Danitha_Aminda

    Childhood memories are always best

    Sometimes, memories is the best thing .Because we can imagine it and we can live in memories.

    Nice Feel Good movie with a familiar childhood memories. Sometimes it's funny. The little actors did their job nicely.
    10thokder-arnab

    Still in awe

    Sometimes you listen to a particular old song, or you open a particular page of an old book, or you go and sit by the old playground you used to play, and thats it. The next few days, you won't sleep at night, sometimes you will laugh, and sometimes tears will flow along your cheek, silently, and ... alone... nobody else would know sweetness of that pain.

    This movie will make you feel exactly that.. and much more...

    The movie may not attract a lot of westerners. May be because they do not have these kinds of memories. But for the Asians, who in their childhood have struggled as well as enjoyed the meaning of childhood, this movie is the one. And if you don't want to interrupt your daily routine, this is not for you, because this will surely change you routines for the next few days.
    9edmund-marlowe

    The power of simplicity

    By far the best of the many Thai films I have seen, this will utterly astonish anyone expecting the melodrama and poor acting so often encountered in Thai cinema. As even by the standards of the latter, its budget was low, it shows in the tradition of which The Bicycle Thieves is perhaps the most spectacular example, that with fine acting and masterful direction, depiction of the emotions in a simple story can trump a budget of any size.

    A young man called Jeap is invited to the wedding of his long-lost childhood friend Noi-Naa. His initial decision to give precedence to a prior engagement is soon abandoned when in his car he listens to the musical hits of his childhood and memories flood back in the way old music is perhaps uniquely powerful in making them do. Most of the story then focuses on Jeap as a ten-year-old agonisingly torn between the super-girlish circle of his oldest friend and neighbour Noi-Naa and a gang of characterful boys led by an amiably-roguish fat bully called Jack. Extremely nostalgic and wittily recounted, it is definitely a story to make one both laugh and cry. The acting is superb.

    The title and cover are misleading. Touching as the deeply-felt friendship of Jeap and Noi-Naa is, Fan Chan is not a romance, but a story about friendships and their meaning in the emotional world of the nearly pubescent boy. The idea of its being romantic is actually deeply ironic, for what it does perhaps most convincingly and interestingly is to remind us of a truth that was obvious to everyone until a generation or two ago: that beyond his mother's love, a boy's needs until well into adolescence are for his own sex. Nowadays this tends to be obscured by contrived gender-blindness combined with a silly and uncomfortably half-hearted wish to see children prematurely aping their parents' romantic antics.

    Unfortunately, the full mind-blowing emotional impact will only be felt by those with nostalgic memories of the lost simplicity of rural Thailand in the 1980s, and especially those who were children then. These above all accounted for its being the extraordinary and unexpected local hit it was, but even with its impact diluted, it fully deserves a global audience.

    Edmund Marlowe, author of Alexander's Choice, a novel of boyhood, www.amazon.com/dp/1481222112.
    10thewinner

    Warm, Funny, and Bring back your childhood

    It's an honor for me to be the first to comment on this movie. I had a chance to see this film a few months ago. As a Thai guy, it flashes back my childhood memory and that made me smile all the way through the end.

    Even though it is not a high budget movie comparing to those from Hollywood, I believe that the simplified storyline is the strength of this movie.

    After watching this movie, I had a warm feeling and it really made my day. The movie also has some funny moments like 'the chinese martial art fantasy scene'. I can't guarantee if the non-Thai viewers will enjoy it but I am sure that most of the Thais will definitely like it. :D

    10/10 for a Thai.
    10friend-travis

    Good film

    Hi, this is my 3rd Thai movie after Tony jaa's movies. I am from India and just happened to watch this movie which was translated in English. I just loved the movie .It just took me back to my childhood memories. Going with friends on cycles. Fighting with friends and getting back together again. Going back home after a long time away and observing that things are different. Thats how real life is. And more ever i like the emotional part of the relationship between jean and noi. Its so original. Good job done, Ill need a few days to get over it like jeab needed a few days to get out of his down in life after noi moved away. I would rate it as one of the best i have seen...

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      All of the 6 directors made a "bargain" with the much revered spirit house at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok to run laps around the entire campus for each 1 million Baht the film would make at the box office . It went on to gross up to 100 million and the directors stayed true to their oaths. They ran the laps, a few at a time though, as the campus is over 100 acres.

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    • Release date
      • 2003 (Thailand)
    • Country of origin
      • Thailand
    • Official site
      • Official site (Thailand)
    • Language
      • Thai
    • Also known as
      • My Girl
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    • Gross worldwide
      • $3,431,038
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 50m(110 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
      • Dolby SR
      • Dolby Digital EX
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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