Master Jan...
Master Jan!
Ken!
When did you get here?
You were asleep, I didn't want to wake you.
I wasn't sleeping,
I was just thinking.
What's on your mind?
Old men like us can only think about one thing...
The past.
Jan Dara is still Jan Dara.
Ken is still Ken.
We've just got so old.
Yes.
We're very old.
But my heart... my heart refuses to age.
I still remember the love of my life, Hyacinth.
I still remember Madame Boonleung, always so graceful.
I still remember that perverse woman, Miss Kaew.
I even remember someone we both knew very well.
Would you like an inhalant?
No.
I still remember Saisoi, Kaew's maidservant
and your first woman.
She Was your first too.
Right, we shared the same property back then.
Ken, the inhalant please!
Do you remember the exact date when we left Bangkok
for my grandmother's house in Phijit?
It was ages ago! Who would remember that?
I do. I'll never forget it.
It was December 10, 1932.
The day the king granted the constitution.
Master Jan, Madame is waiting for you in the house.
All right.
My dearest Jan...
My precious!
Are you Ken, son of Poom?
Yes, ma'am.
I know everything.
Wad sent a telegraph this morning
to tell me the whole story.
My dearest Jan...
Forgive me for putting you
through all the misfortunes.
It's all because I chose a wrong man
to be your mother's husband.
Wisnan was working at the Palace Office.
He was also an accomplished court actor.
Even I was fooled by his theatrics.
It never occurred to me that
he would put on a realistic performance in life as he did on stage.
So I made him marry Dara, your mother.
I thought I could lead him by the nose.
Lord Wisnan, please forgive me.
I'm four-months pregnant.
What you did was a horrible insult to my family! Revolting!
Please, My lord! I'd give you the moon and the stars,
I'll give you anything!
Just promise me that the scandal will never leave this house.
All right.
State your wish.
I want the ownership of everything, the house, the land,
and all the businesses in Bangkok belonging to your family.
That horrendous louse!
What about my father, Jom?
Where is he now? What's happened to him?
Don't suffer yourself
with things of no great concern.
What's gone is gone.
Now you're here, my precious...
so rest your body and mind.
In the meantime, you and me...
can plot sweet revenge against that
scum you once called Father.
How about that, my precious?
Dear Hyacinth, Ken and I have arrived safely in Phijit.
We're staying with my grandmother,
the only elder in the family
who has always showed her kindness towards me
since the day I was born.
You must be wondering why I had to leave home
and come to Phijit in such haste.
But if I had remained in Bangkok,
I might've already been shot dead like a rabid dog
by the man whom I always thought was my father.
My life here is incredibly different from my days in Bangkok.
The air is fresh,
the sky is clear,
and everything seems so serene.
For the first time in my life, I feel completely free.
I'm only concerned about my virile friend, Ken.
Because all the servants here are wrinkled old ladies.
Don't worry about me,
I feel completely at peace here.
Missing you always, Jan Dara.
Master Jan, I can't stand it any longer.
Why? Work's too hard?
Hard work my foot!
Every day I make jasmine garlands, carry water
and cook with a bunch of old women!
Master Jan, I feel like my heart is withering.
Like a tree dying for a drop of magic water.
What shall we do then? This isn't like Bangkok.
If we get naughty here, Grandma will skin us alive.
Aren't you afraid of her?
I do! I'm shitting my pants!
Your Grandma is scarier than Lord Wisnan.
But look, I heard the servant boys talk about
a certain establishment with red and green lanterns.
Don't you feel itchy?
No.
But I do!
So I'd like to ask you to sponsor my trip
to the house of pleasure, just for once.
I'd be eternally grateful.
I have to let some steam off.
My wrist is about to fall off!
Take the whole purse.
Good evening sir!
I'm so sorry but all the girls have been taken tonight.
Except "Sister Patum", not exactly young
but her performance is legendary.
Is that all talk?
No sir! Patum never lets her clients down, literally.
Or you can wait for the young lasses, but it'll be an hour.
Patum it is then!
Are you from Bangkok?
Yes.
Doing business?
No, just staying.
Where do you stay?
Phijitvanich House at the edge of town. Ever heard of it?
Of course I do.
I was a servant girl there.
So you know the story of Dara,
the lady who was raped.
Miss Dara wasn't raped.
It was the servant girl who went with her
who was raped.
What're you talking about?
Seventeen years ago when Madame traveled with Miss Dara
through the forest to visit her relatives at a remote village,
Jom and two other men
ambushed them and kidnapped Dara
and her 17-year-old servant girl into their forest hideout.
There...
The girl was brutally raped by Jom's men
while Jom himself was in the hut
cooing with Dara like lovebirds.
That servant girl was me.
I was so scared back then.
When those two fell asleep,
I ran away to the police.
What happened to that man, Jom?
I don't know.
I have never seen him again since that day.
But he didn't rape Dara, I'm sure about that.
Why do you want to know all of this?
I never thought that Ken's trip to the bawdy house
would benefit me with such a valuable tip-off.
"Sister Patum", who was once my mother's servant,
pointed Ken to the Wiangchai House
where my father, Jom, once lived.
Most importantly, I learned that...
I wasn't a child born from a hideous circumstance
as Lord Wisnan had vengefully accused me of.
They've moved to the Northeast! How can we find them?
Master Jan. Sister Patum also told me about a police officer...
Captain Ruang... something...
Yes! Captain Ruangyos. He was in charge of the case back then.
I've gone through every case file from 17 years ago.
There was no such case as you mentioned.
Nothing about the rape and kidnapping of Miss Dara.
And there wasn't any report
about a shoot-out between the police and the bandits.
What about Captain Ruangyos?
Captain Ruangyos... left the force 17 years ago.
That means I'll never meet him again in this life.
You do.
Captain Ruangyos is my uncle.
After he resigned, he's spent his life in solitude,
living a farmer's life in deep woods
and barely visiting the town.
Only I visit him sometimes.
I can take you to see him
but I'm not sure if he'll talk to you.
He's Jan Dara,
Lady Phijitraksa's grandson.
He'd like to pay you respects.
Please go back. I have nothing to tell you.
Wait sir.
Please have mercy on me.
In my whole life I've never seen my father and mother.
I only wish to know who my father is.
And if he's doing fine.
If he's still alive,
I wish I could bow at his feet at least once.
Only then my soul would be at peace.
You've come to the right place.
I knew your mother...
...and Jom very well.
Actually I'd known Jom since we were in a boarding school in Bangkok.
I was his senior. When his family in Phijit went bankrupt
he quit school and came back here. When I was transferred to Phijit,
I visited him for old time's sake.
Jom had changed a lot.
He'd become a playboy. Boozing, gambling, whoring...
But he never hurt anyone.
One day I was invited to Miss Dara's homecoming ceremony
when she arrived here from Bangkok.
I admit that
I fell hopelessly in love with your mother at that instant.
She was an image of perfection.
Her fine, elegant manner...
Her angelic face...
That's why...
when Patum reported to me
that Dara was kidnapped into the forest by Jom and his friends,
I felt as if I were struck by lightning.
How could that be possible?
When Patum led me and your grandmother to the forest hideout
I found Jom's two lackeys
and arrested them without any hassle.
Then we found Miss Dara, wretched and frail.
But Jom was nowhere to be found.
I conducted an investigation
to find any clues that might lead to Jom.
The two men confessed that they raped Patum,
while Jom and Miss Dara were talking by the river.
I want you to know now that
I never want to hurt you.
We're merely paying for the sin committed by our parents.
I'm the son...
and my duty is to restore dignity
and wealth taken from my family by yours.
Are you going to kill me?
You have to bear my child.
I hope you'd understand.
If bearing your child...
is a way to pay for the sin my family
committed against yours...
it's my duty too,
to accept the karma forged by my ancestors.
I beg your forgiveness.
But later that night, after Patum ran away,
things took a turn for the worst.
After the two men raped Miss Dara,
they dumped Jom's body into the river.
Kill them now.
Ma'am, by law we have to
put them on trial.
The law isn't the only means to ensure justice,
don't you agree?
You're not my child! You're a bastard!
Your mother was raped!
Why did I have to take you as my son!?
Master Jan! Master Jan!
What're you doing?!
Get away from me!
Master Jan, no!
I beg you!
I was born a bastard! Why should I go on living?
If that's what you think...
Kill me! Shoot me, now!
Shoot me now! Just shoot me dead now!
Do it!
Scum!
Bastard!
Scum!
Bastard!
Master Jan! Promise me you'll never do something like that again.
Promise me!
Everything I've done...
I never once did it for my own good and happiness.
I've done everything
to protect the land
our grandparents
had earned through their sweat.
They did everything
to ensure that their children
would live
a harmonious
and peaceful life.
And the gratitude we have towards our family...
is the quality that sets human apart from beast.
Jan,
you have to always remember...
that you're the last
remaining offspring of our clan.
Your great responsibility is
to maintain our Phijitvanich bloodline
until eternity.
Do you or do you not get it?
My precious.
I do, grandma.
Dear Jan, I'm filled with joy
upon hearing that the agony caused by the search for your real father
has finally been relieved.
I hope you're beginning to enjoy working in the Phijitvanich's factory.
That's a good way to put the misery behind you.
And your new life will become even more complete
if you observe dharma and austerities
every Saturday and Sunday.
Me, I'm doing just fine.
I'm eagerly looking forward to meeting my new Jan in Bangkok soon.
Miss you always, Hyacinth.
I never thought that a ruthless womanizer like you
would find love in a temple, of all places.
And I never thought that
there'd be any woman in this whole world
who could inspire me
to think of her only in a good way.
Ken, this is what they call true love.
That's what I feel towards Hyacinth.
Master Jan, come look at my baby!
Say hello to my master.
May the boy have only happiness in his life.
Don't grow up to be a womanizer like your dad.
That was the past!
Don't listen to him. I've stopped that!
The baby hasn't had a name, can you think of one for him?
What should I call you?
Well...
Let's call you Dao, meaning star,
so you'll shine a light into people's hearts.
As Ken's life thrived like a tree on fertile soil,
my grandmother's health withered away.
My grandmother's health withered away.
Make sure she takes the medicine as I prescribe.
Thank you, doctor.
Around that time
Aunt Wad and Ken's mother
Jan...
arrived at our Phijit house out of the blue.
Ken...
Mom...
Aunt Wad...
This is your grandson,
and this is Malai, my wife.
My grandson!
Let me guess that something must've gone terribly wrong...
at our Bangkok house.
That's why you two suddenly showed up here.
Am I right?
You are, ma'am.
So what's happened?
Kaew is pregnant.
Kaew... Who's the father?
After Jan and Ken fled here
Kaew kept up her promiscuous lifestyle.
Her appetite grew ever more insatiable,
especially when Lord Wisnan and Madame Boonleung were away.
She ordered room service from young male servants.
Or she'd arrange an orgy at the small house almost every night.
Last year, Lord Wisnan and Madame Boonleung
went on a business trip to Singapore and Europe,
leaving Kaew at home.
At first she was supposed to travel with them.
But she changed her mind just days
before the planned departure.
Kajorn, come have some wine with me.
I'm so lonely... Dad and Boonleung have left without me.
Let me put on some clothes first.
That won't be necessary.
Why not?
You never know
you are my love at first sight.
And you never know too
you are also my love at first sight.
After that day...
They spent time together whenever they had a chance.
They didn't care if people were watching.
They didn't even listen to my warning.
The day before yesterday, nightmares awaited
Lord Wisnan and Madame Boonleung as they returned home.
Sir, Kaew and Kajorn are waiting for you in the hall.
We beg you to please forgive us
for our misconduct and disregard of tradition.
We've been to bed before we get married.
But our unseemly behavior
wasn't an act of rash desire.
It's an act of love we feel for each other.
And now...
Miss Kaew is three-month pregnant.
What are we waiting for then?
Wad! Prepare the biggest wedding
Bangkok has ever seen, get to it now!
Boonleung! Send out the invitation to guests in Singapore,
Penang and Phuket. Finally, we're becoming a real family!
Aren't you happy?
The two of them...
can't be married.
Why's that?
We truly love each other.
What made you say that?
Kajorn...
is your son.
They're
brother and sister.
I was pregnant
before I married my husband.
How come you never told me?
I meant to tell you...
on the day Kajorn graduates from the cadet school and becomes an officer.
I'll be damned...
Why are you so cruel?
If I had known... I would never...
Son, I'm sorry!
Don't say anything!
I don't want to hear another word from you!
I've been living in the same house
as my father for three years!
And you never told me the truth!
What were you trying to do?
Please forgive me!
How could I?
Because of you, I've taken my sister as my wife!
How can I face the world now?
Kaew...
Always remember that I love you.
I'll always do.
Kajorn!
Don't leave me!
Kajorn!
Don't leave me here!
Kajorn!
My lord, my lord!
Come now, sweet revenge!
Karma has finally caught up with him.
My precious,
come sit right here.
Yes, Grandma.
Your virtue and dharma practice...
have finally brought our family a great merit!
That monster must be desperate to
find a man to be Kaew's husband.
Am I right, Wad?
Yes, ma'am.
And who else would be able to
clean up the filth in that house...
except my precious Jan.
Am I right, Wad?
That's the only way. Actually,
Lord Wisnan has admitted that he had no other choice.
My precious Jan...
It's time for you to return to Bangkok.
You'll reclaim everything
that the evil man deceitfully took from us.
Return everything to our Phijitvanich clan!
Take revenge and restore dignity to my name...
To your mother's...
To Aunt Wad's...
And to the Phijitvanich's blood in you.
You must promise me.
Now!
I promise... Grandma...
Ma'am!
Grandma!
Ma'am!
I'll go get the doctor.
Ma'am!
I've told you not to let this little shit into the main house!
That scum killed his mother. Go on, call him "scum".
Scum!
You little fuck, you and I are over!
All right, you and I are over.
It was March 7, 1935.
The day King Rama VII abdicated.
After the 50 days mourning period following my grandmother's funeral,
we returned to Bangkok
to finalize the wedding agreement
between Kaew and myself.
But Ken's mother decided to remain in Phijit permanently.
I'm really glad to see all of you again.
Here's Mr. Marut, our lawyer.
Pleased to meet you, sir.
This way please, Jan.
Take your seat.
Jan, sit.
From now on,
you're the only master of the house.
Good afternoon, Madame Boonleung.
I believe that you has already gone through our proposition
we've sent already.
He has.
I'd like all of you to know that
Lord Wisnan has asked me to represent him in this negotiation.
He still hasn't recovered
from the trauma
of the recent events.
So why is he here?
Lord Wisnan would like to be present.
Fine.
Now I want to officially confirm our lists of demand again.
First,
all assets and business interests in Bangkok
under the title of Lord Wisnandecha
will be transferred to me, Jan Dara. I'll be the sole owner of everything.
He accepts.
Second,
the entire executive board of Phijitvanich Company will have to resign.
Especially the managing director...
Mr. Ken Kratingthong will take up the position
right after this negotiation.
He accepts.
Third, from now on the Phijitvanich Company in Singapore
will report directly
to the headquarters in Bangkok.
Lord Wisnan...
refuses this proposition, Mr. Jan dara.
Why?
He has a personal reason, Mr. Jan dara.
What's that personal reason?
Mr. Jan, we've agreed to all your demands.
We just ask for this one exception about Singapore.
I'm asking you, what is that personal reason?
Shit! I only ask to keep the Singaporean branch
because Boonleung and I have built an international network!
An idiot like you would ruin everything!
In that case... I hereby promote Madame Boonleung
from consultant
to managing director of our Singaporean branch.
She'll report directly to me.
I hope you'd understand.
But remember this...
I, Jan Dara... I'm the sole owner of this house.
You're just an inhabitant, you're no different from any other servants.
Bear in mind that
I can kick you out of here whenever I want.
It's entirely up to me.
But since we're no strangers,
you're Aunt Wad's husband.
I'll have mercy on you.
Aunt Wad, tell the servants
move The Lord belongings from his room to the tower.
As my prisoner...
he'll spend the rest of his life in confinement over there.
Meanwhile, the small house that used to be my jail
will from now on belong to Mr. Ken Kratingthong.
And naturally...
The Lord's room will become mine.
And now my last demand... You have to call me "sir".
Try it.
You won't? That's all right.
Ken!
Sir.
We're going back to Phijit.
Have someone book the train for tonight.
Yes, sir.
Wait, sir!
What's the matter?
I accept everything, sir.
Very good! You've made the right move!
Have you put everything down?
Yes, sir.
Very well, the meeting is over.
"Wisnand House"
"Phijitvanich House"
Sir, is Hyacinth back?
"I return this handkerchief you once gave me".
"Please keep it"
"as a memento of our friendship".
"Love, Hyacinth".
By the mercy of God, she's left us.
She passed away this morning from typhoid.
Jan.
Go take a bath.
The dinner will be serve in your room.
Yes, Aunt Wad.
I'm surprised that all of a sudden
you've made me managing director of our Singaporean branch.
May I ask you why?
Because you're the most qualified person.
What if I refused?
Then I'd give up the Singaporean outfit.
Just our companies in Bangkok and Phijit
are more than enough to provide for us into the next generations.
That's what it is.
You've changed a lot.
It scares me.
As long as the world is spinning
nothing ever stays still.
I'll go get some rest.
See you tomorrow.
It has come out!
The baby's been born!
We have a young master.
The baby's been born!
We have a young master, sir.
You scum!
Come on.
Dinner is ready, sir.
I'm not hungry, now I want a bath.
On the day of that absurd wedding,
I felt like a lunatic returning to the madhouse.
Like being on stage,
I was convinced and unconvinced of everything that was happening.
The finest actress of that
play was certainly my bride.
Her performance as a virgin ingenue
was so persuasive despite her lack of rehearsal.
Scum, you'll never get to touch as much as my foot.
Shut your filthy mouth.
I don't want to smack my wife on the wedding night.
Son of a bitch,
I'm not scared!
Call me "sir".
Scum!
- "Sir"! - Scum!
- "Sir"!
That's enough,
today's a good day. Miss Wad would feel bad seeing this.
It's not enough! I want to slap this bitch to her sense!
Call me "Sir"!
Scum!
I'm sorry.
It's all right.
This isn't why we're still together.
Yes.
Please don't leave me.
I'll never leave you.
Promise me.
Yes.
I promise.
It's sweltering tonight!
Would you rub some ice on my back?
Insolent! How insolent!
Insolent? Who was it that taught me to be insolent?
Please leave my room now, Mr. Jan dara.
Should I remind you again whose house is this?
You may bully everyone else in this house.
But you have no right to boss me around like that.
I'm not bossing you around.
I'm just asking for a favor.
Like you once asked me.
Now it's my turn.
It wouldn't be that hard for you to return the favor.
Come, the ice is melting.
Let it melt.
I'll never let you
order me like one of your servants.
How unsympathetic!
Time can really change people.
Do you know... I can never forget the scent of your bare back...
or the smoothness and warmth of your soft breasts...
And I never forget the taste of your lips.
Don't you feel the same?
Have you forgotten the touch of my hands
on your body?
Have you forgotten my kisses on your back?
I forgot them all.
Liar! You're lying to yourself!
I know you want me. Just like I want you.
We've wanted each other from the first day we met!
How did you get this scar on your head?
The Lord beat me.
No one knows that
every punishment...
every painful blow I took...
I accepted it
as the punishment for the crime that was born with me.
I deserve it, my mother died because of me.
I already told you your mother's death was an accident.
If I hadn't been born, my mother would've been alive.
That's not how you should look at it.
Jan,
promise me...
no matter what happens,
You must not harm The Lord to death.
Yes, I promise.
Master Jan! Master Jan!
Are you dead?
I'm not.
I'm just resting.
Someone like you just can't drop dead easily. Can you?
Of course.
I'm not going to die on you.
So while you're sleeping...
Resting!
While you're resting
let me continue the story for you.
Make it good.
Six or seven months after the wedding,
the house
was so calm it was suffocating.
Take it to the factory.
Yes, sir.
The semblance of peace was more like a cloak of uncertainty.
Take it to the office this afternoon.
Yes, sir.
Doctor!
Don't worry.
Let me take a look.
Take a deep breath, everything will be fine.
I can't stand it anymore!
Get this preposterous thing out of me!
Who put this devil inside me?!
My dear wife, squealing like a slaughtered pig!
And calling her baby "preposterous"!
Be careful how you speak!
You're about to become a father.
Didn't you hear how sweetly the mother talked, huh?
It's not even my child, I don't give a damn.
The baby's about to be born?
Yes, it is.
Finally!
It's a boy!
Please return to your quarters.
You're not allowed to be here.
Please let me take a look at my grandson.
No.
All right, sir.
Madame Boonleung, please.
The way you told it, I looked like the bad guy!
What about when you told it? I looked bad too!
No! But you've made me look really bad.
We'll get to the part when you're the good guy soon!
I should smack you!
I'm scared, papa!
Good!
We're all good and bad.
What's the fun if we're like saints!
You should become a monk!
Will they let an old and dying man become a monk?
I want to see you with a shaved head!
Crazy!
I never thought you would change for the better
since the baby had been born.
You even set aside a small room
next to your office as the baby room.
Every time you were with the baby,
you became the old Jan that I once knew,
kind and sensitive.
Jan, the boy still hasn't got a name.
Grandma and Grandpa can't think of anything.
You were born with a curse just like your father here.
No breast milk, just powder milk.
You have a father and mother, but it's as if you didn't.
Your grandfather calls me Jan,
from Jan Rai, or scum.
Your mother called you "preposterous".
So I'll call you "Pree".
P-R-E-E
You're Pree Dara.
What a beautiful name.
That's quite witty.
Don't you like it?
He's my son.
We should have something in common.
You'll grow up to be a millionaire like me!
Go get dressed. We have to go to the office.
You go on.
Can't you see I'm crazy about my child?
Of course I do, sir.
It was said that happiness was transient.
And it was true.
Soon a tragedy struck the house
and broke everyone's heart.
The victim was Pree Dara.
The boy was slow in mental development.
At first we thought he was a mute.
The boy has mental retardation.
His body will grow,
but his brain will not.
Pree!
It's my fault.
Please forgive me.
No, it's my fault!
All of us have suffered enough...
Please forgive me.
Jan.
Leave us. I want to be with my son.
Please leave.
My son.
Don't worry.
I promise.
I'll never leave you,
as long as I'm alive.
How's that? Am I a good storyteller?
You almost made me cry.
It's very touching.
Hats off to you.
Should I continue?
No.
Why not?
Because Jan Dara is the leading man in this story.
Not Ken Krathingthong.
Then I'll go home now.
Don't go.
All right...
You can be the second leading man.
I'm kidding.
I'm happy being an assistant to the leading man.
It's called the supporting role.
Yes, the supporting role.
At 3am today,
the Japanese Army has landed on Siamese coasts at Songkhla,
Pattani, Chumporn and Samut Prakarn.
There were clashes,
but by no means could we resist the Japanese forces.
The government has agreed to allow the Japanese
to move their troops across our country.
We ask all Thai citizens to remain calm
and maintain peace.
Obey the warnings of the government.
Announced at 1 pm by Thailand's Broadcast Radio.
Take me home!
Boonleung, my heart burns with jealousy
every time I see you with that bastard.
I want him to die and leave us alone.
Please!
You know he can't do anything to you now!
I know, but I still can't stand it.
Do you realize how much I love you?
I do.
Boonleung... Have a child with me.
I want an heir to carry my bloodline.
I had a vasectomy...
when I went to Europe with The Lord.
Peter wrote me that
the Japanese has seized
our company in Singapore.
I'm so worried that the same will happen to our business here.
- Wad, get ready to move everyone to Phijit. - OK.
Soon war will break out here.
I'll warn Jan about it.
No, let me do that.
I want to tell him myself.
He won't listen to you.
That's fine.
At least I want to try.
My Lord!
My Lord, My Lord!!
My Lord!
Sir!
I never forget that day
when the hammer of fate hit us.
Not just Siam...
But the Phijitvanich house too.
Lord Wisnan became totally paralyzed.
Miss Wad had to move him from the tower
to the main hall.
Master Jan and Madame Boonleung kept to themselves
and hardly showed up to meet anybody.
Ken.
Yes, ma'am.
Please take care of Jan and The Lord for me.
What do you mean by that?
I'm going to Phijit tonight.
Send someone to get a train ticket.
Yes, ma'am.
I'll ask Malai and the boy to go with you.
Thank you.
Ma'am.
Stop it!
Why? I need you so much.
The old lech is now a cripple.
That's enough!
You don't desire me at all?
We've caused too much suffering.
You never loved me.
You slept with me...
You pretend to be good to me...
just because you were afraid I'd hurt that old devil!
Boonleung, answer me!
Yes.
You never loved me.
Someone must've sneaked in to do this to him.
You have to keep watch.
I have to go now.
Thank you, doctor.
Getting drunk so early, huh?
Ken! Come drink with me!
I think you should have breakfast, not whisky.
You'll hurt your stomach.
Don't lecture me.
I don't care about my stomach!
Well, I do! But so what?
Suit yourself.
I'll have to ask you frankly.
Did you hurt The Lord?
Yes, I did.
Why?
You saw what that prick did to me when I was a child!
It's time to end this vicious cycle.
It only hurts us more and more!
The Lord is paying for his sins,
and he's not going to live much longer!
Die and burn in hell! The sooner the better!
You think so, Grandma?
Jan...
Do you even know what you've become?
Come back and be the old Master Jan I used to know!
If you keep spreading poison like this,
no one will want to be with you.
Don't you know that Miss Wad has gone to Phijit
because she couldn't stand what you and Madame Boonleung did!
Then follow her!
Go to Phijit!
How dare you teach me what to do?!
Get this into your head!
You're just a maid's son!
You have no right to tell me how to live!
All right.
If that's what you want.
Get out! Go to hell!
All of you!
Is Ken here?
In his office, sir.
What can I do for you, sir?
I happen to be in the neighborhood.
You haven't come back to the house in months.
I thought you'd left the company to join your family in Phijit.
I did. And I've come back.
The staff here should be fired!
How can they leave their manager to work alone like this? Useless!
Today's a holiday.
Is that so?
Have you eaten?
I've had coffee.
I've brought you lunch.
Shrimp paste, fried mackerel,
bitter curry, and banana in sweet syrup. All your favorites.
I'll leave it here.
Why are you in such a hurry?
I'll take a walk, I'll be back.
Well, I forgot something.
What?
I forgot to say sorry.
Forgive a bad man like me.
You can come home whenever you want.
You're always welcome.
Master Jan!
Ken!
Master Jan!
Master Jan, can you hear me?
Master Jan!
I'm all right. But the man on top of me isn't.
Help him up.
Mr. Kajorn!
Where have you been?
I've joined the Free Thai Movement in England.
You'll be all right, we'll take you to the doctor.
It's too late, Mr. Jan.
Please give this ring
to my mother.
Please take care of my mother...
My father...
Kaew...
and our child.
Mr. Kajorn!
May you rest in peace.
That's life.
Mr. Kajorn died and I was saved.
You should hurry home to see if everything's all right.
I'll take his body to the temple.
Ken. I hate war.
I despise all of this.
Where's my son?
Daddy! Daddy!
Is anybody hurt?
No, sir.
And The Lord?
He's asleep, sir.
It started after you forced yourself on Kaew.
She threatened to kill herself if I didn't become her lover.
I feel sorry for her.
Kaew is no different from you.
You're two motherless children.
And the burden fell on me.
I met Mr. Kajorn today,
he asked me to give this ring to you.
Where did you meet him? Is he doing all right?
He's fine. He's going to England.
Now? During the war?
He's with the Free Thai Movement.
Kajorn...
The Lord has passed away.
Father,
please forgive me
for everything I did.
Please forgive me too.
Scum! You knocked me up!
You're my wife. What's so wrong with me knocking you up?
Who's your wife, asshole?!
The whole of Bangkok knows that you,
Mrs. Wilailek Dara,
is the wife of Jan Dara by law and by tradition.
In seven months
I'll have a child as my heir.
Scum! I want to smack your face.
Smack Ken! You two have history, right?
No! I've retired a long time ago!
I want to fight you, son of a bitch!
Sure! I want to kick my wife's face too!
Don't run away!
I'll run! So what?
Your mustache has come off!
And your pants too!
What a disgrace!
Dear Madame Boonleung,
I've heard the sad news of The Lord's death from Ken.
But I couldn't leave the monastery for the funeral
since I was in the period of observing dharma.
I guess soon
you'd leave Bangkok
for your home in Phuket
or maybe for a vacation in Europe.
You had performed the noblest of duty
that a woman could to a man she loved.
Right up to the final moments of his life.
Myself, I've found peace under the guidance of faith.
I'll devote my soul
to the glory of Buddha
until the last day of my life.
I will consign the merit to all the spirits in the universe.
As well as to you...
To Jan... To Kaew...
To my grandson Pree...
And another who's growing in Kaew's womb.
May the virtue
of Buddha's teachings
shower you with peace and happiness forever.
From Nun Wad.
If you leave me,
how can I go on living?
Of course you can.
If you walk out on me, I'll kill myself!
Try me!
Kaew... A person can never love another person
if he doesn't even know
how to love and respect himself.
Goodbye.
Selfish.
Look who's talking.
I have to go now, young man.
Too bad I was born too soon,
or maybe you were born too late.
Why's that?
Otherwise I might've
settled down here as your wife and lived happily ever after.
Age is just a number.
It's easy for a man to say that.
In five or six years, I'll become an old hag.
And you'll dump me
for a hot young thing.
Right, Ken?
No comment, ma'am.
My heart skips a beat seeing you leave.
Tomorrow your heart will be fine.
Believe me, young man.
I'll remember everything that happened in this house as my souvenir.
Especially
the friendship you had for me.
And I'll remember to rub ice on my body when the heat gets unbearable.
It's much more fun to have a girl do that for you.
There won't be any girl who can melt my ice...
like you could. I mean it.
Thank you. Thanks for everything.
Including...
When you lied to me about Kajorn.
How did you know?
I'm a witch. I have a crystal ball.
Let's go.
Bon voyage.
Ken, did you tell her about Mr. Kajorn?
I'd never dare do that!
How could she know then?
She knows a lot of people,
maybe one of her Western friends told her.
Or maybe she really has a crystal ball.
Son of a bitch! You'll never have your child!
May you burn in hell and be damned until eternity!
She's gone.
My child... My child's gone too...
Yes.
My child's gone too!
My child.
And they all left me,
one by one...
like falling leaves.
Pree died when he was around 10.
You too, Ken.
I'm not dead yet.
I'm right here, or do you take me for a ghost?
I'm not saying you're dead.
I said, everyone left me.
We all have to leave those we love at some point, don't we?
I never did.
I never left Phijitvanich House.
You're talking about a house. A house doesn't have a life.
Of course there is.
You don't see what I've seen.
Sometimes I saw Lord Wisnan.
I saw Aunt Wad, Madame Boonleung...
I saw Miss Kaew too, we even talked.
Don't you believe me? I also saw Mr. Kajorn and Pree.
Are you serious?
You're frightening me!
I'm joking!
Ken, I have a present for you.
What is it?
Here.
My diary.
All my memories are written in here,
with pictures too.
And this is my will.
I give everything
to you and your children.
I'll take the diary,
but the will... I won't have it.
Are you out of your mind? That's a few billion baht!
I won't take it.
I don't have a child, I don't have anyone.
Give it to charity.
No, I want you to have it!
I don't want it!
I want you to have it!
I don't want it! You're so stubborn!
I should smack you!
Oh, I'm scared!
Are you mad to refuse a billion-baht fortune?
Master Jan,
the apocalypse is coming.
What good
would money do?
Good afternoon, grandpa.
Tiwa, you're here.
Yes.
Is this Dao?
No.
This is Tiwa, Dao's son.
What kind of work do you do?
I work at NASA in the States.
Tiwa has a PhD. In physics.
Grandpa, we have to leave for the airport now.
Where are you off to?
Back home in the USA.
I have to go, or I'll miss my flight.
Let me hold it.
See, everybody left me.
Don't say that, Master Jan.
I come back to visit you every year.
If I dropped dead this year, you wouldn't see me here next year.
Then I'd see you in heaven.
You mean hell?
Heaven or hell, I'll make sure to see you every year.
What if you died first?
I'd come to you as a ghost.
Please don't, I'd be so scared.
We really have to go.
Please take care of him.
Don't worry, sir.
See you soon,
in heaven or hell.
Hell, definitely.
Who knows?
Hell, wanna bet?
- Goodbye. - Be careful.
Bon voyage, Ken.