Army Daze

Army Daze is a 1996 Singaporean comedy movie based on the 1987 theatre play which had a rerun in March 2006 of the same name by Singaporean writer Michael Chiang. Distributed by Cathay Asia Films and directed by Ong Keng Sen, the film portrays a group of 18yearold Singaporeans from different classes and cultural backgrounds as they perform their National Service and their experience within the Singapore Armed Forces. The movie is spoken in Singlish, Standard English, Malay, Hokkien and Mandarin.

This is the bestselling comingofage novel by Michael Chiang, a semifictionalised autobiography and reminiscence of lost youth and boyhood.With a budget of S700,000, the movie was one of the most profitable Singaporean films during that time, earning about S1,600,000 at the local box office. ........

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