The Pang Brothers

The Pang Brothers are Danny Pang Fat and Oxide Pang Chun, twin-brother screenwriters and film directors, born in 1965 in Hong Kong. Among their films is the hit Asian horror film, The Eye, which has spawned two sequels, as well as a forthcoming Hollywood remake. Besides working in Hong Kong, the pair frequently work in the Thai film industry, where they made their directorial debut as a team, Bangkok Dangerous.

Early career
Oxide, the older of the two by 15 minutes, started his career in Bangkok, at Kantana Group's film labs as a telecine colorist. He made his first film, the experimental karmic thriller, Who Is Running?, in 1997. It was Thailand's entry for Academy Award for the Best Foreign Film for the 71st Academy Awards in 1998.

Danny is well known as a film editor, and has worked on a number of Hong Kong films, including The Storm Riders and the Infernal Affairs series.

They first teamed up to write and direct the Thai film, Bangkok Dangerous, in 1999. The film won the FIPRESCI Award at the 2000 Toronto International Film Festival and was nominated for best film and best editing at the Thailand National Film Association Awards.

They then made The Eye, which gained the Pangs wider critical acclaim. They made two sequels, The Eye 2 and The Eye 10. An American remake of The Eye is being produced by Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner and starring Jessica Alba.

Aside from The Eye and other horror films, the Pangs made two more edgy Thai crime films in the same vein as Bangkok Dangerous, Danny with 1+1=0 and Oxide with Som and Bank: Bangkok for Sale. Together the three crime films form a loose "Bangkok Trilogy".

Working style
When the Pangs work together, they direct scenes in the film independently of each other. Oxide Pang explains:

In a shooting location there is always only one Pang at a time; it helps us save our energy. One day I'll be shooting, the other, Danny will. I know a lot of people are amazed, but we do have a strong connection, I guess, as twins. And we have a lot of meetings on the script, we sit down in front of a storyboard and we have the same visuals conception.

Recent films
Their 2006 horror film, Re-cycle, was the closing film in the Un Certain Regard competition at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. The film reunited the brothers with Angelica Lee, the star of The Eye.

Among their other projects are a Hollywood-backed, English-language film, a thriller called The Messengers, starring John Corbett, which was released in theaters on February 2, 2007, and a remake of Bangkok Dangerous starring Nicolas Cage.

Oxide produced a remake of Who Is Running? in 2005, called The Remaker, with Mona Nahm directing. He has completed a solo project, Diary, released in 2006. Another solo project for Oxide is C+ Detective, starring Aaron Kwok, about a detective trying to find a woman, with the only clue being a photograph of her.

Danny also completed a solo project, Forest of Death, a thriller about an enchanted forest.

Both Diary and Forest of Death, as well as Re-cycle, were picked up for distribution in the United Kingdom by Image Entertainment.

Personal lives
Oxide Pang and actress Angelica Lee are in a relationship and were rumored to be engaged, but marriage plans have been put on hold.

Pang Brothers

 * Bangkok Dangerous (1999)
 * The Eye (2002)
 * Sung horn (Omen) (2003)
 * The Eye 2 (2004)
 * The Eye 10 (2005)
 * Re-cycle (2006)
 * The Messengers (2007)
 * Bangkok Dangerous (remake, 2007)

As director

 * Who Is Running? (1997)
 * Bangkok Haunted (2001)
 * One Take Only (Som and Bank: Bangkok for Sale) (2003)
 * ''The Tesseract (2003)
 * Ab-normal Beauty (2004)
 * Diary (2006)
 * C+ Detective (2007)

As director

 * 1+1=0 (Nothing to Lose) (2002)
 * Leave Me Alone (2004)
 * Forest of Death (2006)

As editor

 * The Storm Riders (1998)
 * Infernal Affairs (2002)
 * Infernal Affairs II (2003)
 * Infernal Affairs III (2003)
 * The Park (2003)
 * Sung horn (Omen) (2003)
 * The Eye 2 (2004)
 * Bar Paradise (2005)
 * The Messengers (2007)