thaifan12345

Just a reminder that the website - Best Thai Movies - features 12 pages of DVDs available at different on-line vendors (with price comparisons). The site itself is not a commercial site, but a resource for would be Thai movie buffs who like to buy DVDs, rather than damaging the Thai movie industry industry by downloading torrents.

So, now, there is no excuse for not being able to find Thai movies with English or Chinese subtitles.

Does anyone know where you can get hold of Thai movies with English subtitles. Even though they are all on the cinema with English subtitles, new releases on vcd and dvd never seem to have subtitles. Is that just in Chiang Mai? Or am i just looking in the wrong places? I especially wanted the first 2 parts of the King Naresuan trilogy.... its a good way to learn Thai....

cheers

I checked out King Naresuan, as promised and it is not available anywhere, at this stage with English subtitles.

But it may be re-released in the future.

mot thai movis on dvd do not have subtitles. this is reserved for their us,uk or even hong kong versions. there are a couple though that do have subtitles. when you go to a shop like mangpong (scorpion) you can just look at the back of the case at the bottom in small letters you will in 95% of the cases see the subtitle languages that are included and for older movies and a few new ones you will find english subs.

What I don't understand is - if they pay to have subtitles made for the cinema release, why can't they re-use them on the DVD release instead of just wasting them. Surely it can't cost so much to put the subtitles into th DVD package.?

Most of the Mam Jokmok movies are released on DVD without subtitles.

The reason why the subtitles are simple: The production houses of most new Thai movies try to sell the movies distribution rights to other countries. Often this will be "direct-to-dvd" releases of foreign distributors... Now if for example the Thai DVD of Ong Bak would have had English subs (which it didn't) then any US distributor would complain....as this means the Thai DVD which costs much less than a DVD in the US could be exported to American people.......

So in order to play it safe and dont mess up a chance to sell diastribution rights to other countries, most Thai DVDs do not havE the English subs.

I am sure Thai movie producers have costed the option to add subtitles to Thai movies against just re-licensing them to be re-issued overseas with subtitles. Obviously it is more profitable to re-license them.

At least more people around the world get to see Thai movies, in their own language. Thai movies are subtitled in English, Russian, Spanish, etc.

I promised to reply to a thread I can't now find about the availability of King Naresuan with Englsih subtitles.

At this stage it is not available.

In that thread, I mentioned a new non commercial site, searching out Thai movies with English subtitles, -

www.best-thai-movies.com This seems to be a better thread to have mentioned it in

Now, I promise never to mention this site again on any thread in ThaiVisa Forums, as I don't want to be accused of spamming.

But there are good Thai movies on the market, with Englsih subtitles, - movies no doubt you wished had English subtitles, but couldn't find.

In the week of September 14th 2009, the movies Alone, Fire Warriors and Citizen Dog will be added.