Press Release
Style Meets Substances in Bangkok

Tartan Asia Extreme’s One Take Only in Stores August 25th

“Fast-paced, MTV-inspired.”
-Tom Vick, All Movie Guide

LOS ANGELES — June 1st, 2006 — For Immediate Release — From acclaimed director, Oxide Pang (The Eye, Ab-normal Beauty, Bangkok Dangerous) comes his solo directorial debut, One Take Only, shocking DVD shelves August 22nd in stores across the nation from Tartan Asia Extreme.

When Som and Bank meet for the first time in the sprawling metropolis of Bangkok, they are strangers. Bank doesn't know that Som is a hooker, and Som doesn't know Bank is a drug dealer.  Soon they become partners, and the drug deals they make bring them a kind of wealth they have never known. With a taste for the highlife, they plan a deal that will make them rich beyond their wildest imagination. But they soon find the price they pay, may be way too much.

One Take Only caused some controversy upon its Thai theatrical release when it was delayed by sensors who took exception to the film’s racy content.Packed with the kind of stylized visual imagination and cold, menacing brutality, it follows in the long line of films that have made the Pang Brothers famous, including Ab-normal Beauty, also a Tartan Asia Extreme title, and their most successful film to date The Eye. 

Thai, with English and Spanish subtitles, One Take Only is presented in anamorphic widescreen, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound and DTS Surround Sound 5.1. Special DVD features TBD, but will include Original theatrical trailer; Trailers of Tartan Video’s upcoming releases.

All releases on the Asia Extreme label are supported by broad-based and multi-faceted consumer advertising campaigns; a comprehensive online viral marketing campaign; and a public relations push to English-, Spanish- and Asian-language media. 

Tartan Video’s Asia Extreme is a premiere collection of stylish international cinema from the proven Asian horror genre which shocks, scares and astonishes in equal measure.  In the U.K., Tartan has sold over $50 million of Asian product making it Britain’s leading independent film genre.

Hamish McAlpine, the founder and owner of Tartan Films, who are celebrating twenty one years of distributing films in the UK, launched Tartan USA in 2004 with an eclectic and controversial slate of films from established auteurs and up-and-coming filmmakers.  Previous Tartan film releases include 2004 Cannes Grand Jury Prize Winner OLDBOY, the sincerely creepy A TALE OF TWO SISTERS, Michael Winterbottom’s 9 SONGS and Takashi Shimizu’s MAREBITO. The latest releases include the critically-acclaimed Romanian Oscar entry THE DEATH OF MR LAZARESCU and the final film in Park Chanwook’s “ Vengeance Trilogy”. LADY VENGEANCE. For more information, visit www.TartanVideoUSA.com