One Take Only

One Take Only (Thai: ส้ม แบงค์ มือใหม่หัดขาย, also Som and Bank: Bangkok for Sale) is a 2003 crime-drama film written and directed by Oxide Pang. Bank (Pawarith Monkolpisit) is a small-time hoodlum in Bangkok. He uses drugs, and sometimes works for some local gangsters, smuggling guns and drugs. One day he meets Som, a teenage girl who works as a prostitute. The pair fall in love, and in a bid to better their lives, they get into a drug deal that... more

One Take Only (Thai: ส้ม แบงค์ มือใหม่หัดขาย, also Som and Bank: Bangkok for Sale) is a 2003 crime-drama film written and directed by Oxide Pang. Bank (Pawarith Monkolpisit) is a small-time hoodlum in Bangkok. He uses drugs, and sometimes works for some local gangsters, smuggling guns and drugs. One day he meets Som, a teenage girl who works as a prostitute. The pair fall in love, and in a bid to better their lives, they get into a drug deal that is too big for either of them. Originally named Som and Bank: Bangkok for Sale, the film is part of the loose "Bangkok trilogy" by the Pang Brothers, which includes their Bangkok Dangerous and Danny Pang's 1+1=0 (Nothing to Lose). Som and Bank had been completed in 2001 before production commenced on their ghost film, The Eye. The film had screened in November 2001 at the Bangkok Film Festival, but the studio, Film Bangkok, then shelved the film until February 2003, releasing it after Oxide Pang had re-edited it. The Board of Censors objected... less