{"id":80642,"date":"2015-04-16T12:17:48","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T03:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=60684"},"modified":"2016-04-01T02:46:25","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T17:46:25","slug":"thai-drama-filmed-in-kyushu","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/thai-drama-filmed-in-kyushu\/","title":{"rendered":"Thai Drama Filmed in Kyushu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cKimono Hiden\u201d (Original title \u201cKol Kimono\u201d), a new Thai drama series, will air today, Apr. 16 in Thailand. The story is based on the Japanese folklore \u201cTsuru no Ongaeshi\u201d and Fukuoka, Saga, Nagasaki and Kumamoto were used for location shooting. The series incurred the highest production cost ever in Thailand, including the casting of Thongchai McIntyre, considered to be Thailand&#8217;s no.1 superstar, as the leading part and other top stars for other important roles. \u201cJapan is getting more and more popular in Thailand,\u201d said the executive producer Arunosha. The exemption of visa for the Thai nationals since 2013 became a trigger of the boom. Last year, the number of visitors from Thailand reached about 660,000, which is 45% of increase from the year before. For the filming, Saga Film Commission took the initiative to invite and promote Saga to film and TV productions in Thailand. An increase in the number of people from Thailand has already been noticed at locations used in the filming. To improve hospitality to foreign tourists, Saga tourist associations began a 24 hours call center service available in four languages including Thai.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/7271c5e4adtop.jpg?resize=580%2C378\" alt=\"7271c5e4adtop\" width=\"580\" height=\"378\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60685\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/7271c5e4adtop.jpg?w=580&amp;ssl=1 580w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/7271c5e4adtop.jpg?resize=300%2C195&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cKimono Hiden\u201d (Original title \u201cKol Kimono\u201d), a new Thai drama series, will air today, Apr. 16 in Thailand. The story is based on the Japanese folklore \u201cTsuru no Ongaeshi\u201d and Fukuoka, Saga, Nagasaki and Kumamoto were used for location shooting. The series incurred the highest production cost ever in Thailand, including the casting of Thongchai McIntyre, considered to be Thailand&#8217;s no.1 superstar, as the leading part and other top stars for other important roles. \u201cJapan is getting more and more popular in Thailand,\u201d said the executive producer Arunosha. The exemption of visa for the Thai nationals since 2013 became a trigger of the boom. Last year, the number of visitors from Thailand reached about 660000, which is 45% of increase from the year before. For the filming, Saga Film Commission took the initiative to invite and promote Saga to film and TV productions in Thailand. An increase in the number of people from Thailand has already been noticed at locations used in the filming. To improve hospitality to foreign tourists, Saga tourist associations began a 24 hours call center service available in four languages including Thai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":60685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-80642","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-category-general","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/80642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}