The behind-the-scenes footage of Ghost Shadow

Within 3 weeks of its local release, the film exceeded 100 million Thai dollars in box office, totaling more than 20 million Hong Kong dollars. In addition to becoming the top-grossing Thai film in 2004, it also headed towards breaking through Thailand. The highest-grossing horror movie in history, "Ghost Wife," is on track to maintain its box office record of approximately HK$28 million.

Although Thai films are gradually gaining ground in the international film industry and are recognized by people in the film industry from all over the world, it is an indisputable fact that Hollywood films monopolize the box office of Thai local films. Taking the box office as an example, Hollywood productions account for about 70% Time occupies the top spot at the box office. On the contrary, only 8 locally produced films in Thailand have been able to top the box office so far, and "Ghost" is one of them. The film was released locally on September 9, and the box office on the 4th was close to 100 million US dollars (approximately HK$7.8 million), easily beating out major Hollywood productions of the same period such as "The Terminal" and "Man On Fire".

This film achieved great box office success, which can be regarded as adhering to the tradition of Thai audiences prefer horror films. The 2002 classic ghost film "Hell" directed by the Pang brothers and co-operated by Hong Kong and Thailand was well received, and "Hell 2" was a hit. "When it was released in March, it immediately became the box office champion in Thailand. Even the Hong Kong horror film "The Curse" directed by Andy Lau was released in Thailand in December and became the box office champion for two consecutive weeks.

In addition, this film and past similar works include the 1999 classic horror film "Ghost Wife", last year's "Buppha Ratree" and "Ghost Delivery" (the film's leading actor Arlette Evering Starring Xian) and others have one thing in common, that is, they all use a female ghost as the center of the story.

Thai director Banjang Pisindanakan graduated from the Film Department of Chulalongkorn University in Thailand in 1999. His first short film "Plae Kao" directed in 2000 has won the first prize in a short film competition in Bangkok. Nominated for Best Film and Best Screenplay, two years later he directed his second short film "Colorblind" and was invited to participate in many international film festivals, including the International Short Film Festival and the 10th Raindance Film Festival in London. It won awards at the 6th Thailand Short Film and Television Festival and the 8th Asian Film and Culture Festival held in Lyon, France. Banjong has also written film reviews in the famous Thai magazine "Starpics" and served as an assistant director for many TV commercials.

The 25-year-old Badepan graduated from the Film and Television Department of the School of Communication Arts of Lanxi University in 2000. In the same year, his first short film "Luang Ta", which he wrote, directed and shot, was well received locally and internationally. It has received high praise from all over the world, and has participated in the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival in France, the Singapore International Film Festival, and the Asian Short Film Festival in Busan, South Korea. The film also won the Best Director and Best Thailand award at the 2001 Bangkok Film Festival. Two awards for short films. In 2002, Parkpoom completed its second short film "In the Eyes" and was also invited to participate in many international film festivals and won many awards.

The Thai actor Arlette Everingham, who plays the leading role of photographer Tun in this film, was born on May 31, 1982. His handsome appearance is very popular among Thai girls. He is now 22 years old. Yalette has entered the entertainment industry at a young age. He has filmed the TV series "The Miracle of Love" and has appeared in many horror movies, including "303", which was released in Hong Kong and "303", which was released in Thailand in November last year. "Ghost Delivery".

The actress Nathuilan Thame, who plays Tun’s girlfriend Jane, was born on October 22, 1979. Before starting to film, Nathuilan served as a VJ for the Thai TV channel Channel V, and participated in Movie "The Whistle".

Thai films have gradually gained recognition from audiences in recent years. This is mainly due to the success of Thai films that focus on effective commercial operations. At international film festivals in recent years, they have been able to rely on their sensitive Southeast Asian films that are accepted by international film critics for their tactile and delicate expressions generally come from Japan, Vietnam and other places, and there are absolutely no Thai films.

Thailand movies pay attention to practical effects, and among movie types, the best way to win with small things is eroticism and horror. Therefore, we understand that the domestic audience’s acceptance of Thai movies has followed the example of "The Evening Mother" and "Ling Ming". Starting with movies like Tiger and Snake, although this method is not a long-term solution, the results it receives are indeed fast and good in a short period of time.