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Nonzee Nimibutr
Prachya Pinkaew
Prachya Pinkaew
Chookiat Sakveerakul
Chookiat Sakveerakul
Kongkiat Khomsiri
Kongkiat Khomsiri
Suttasit Pottasak
Also Directed by Nonzee Nimibutr
Memories: A woman wakes up on a street without memory. A husband cannot remember why his wife left him. The woman wanders the streets trying to contact the only phone number she has on her. The husband see's her ghost in his apartment and discovers her mutilated body in a large bag in his home (Korea). The Wheel: Extravagant cursed puppets cause fires, deaths, physical pain and a little girl to be possessed (Thailand). Going Home: A father goes in search of his missing son and is abducted by a strange man. The strangers wife has died of cancer three years prior but he keeps her in his apartment under the impression she will 'wake up' (Hong Kong)
As sea pirates threaten to invade their kingdoms, three queens of Langkasuka must band together to defend their lands and peoples.
In a rural village in Thailand, Mak (Winai Kraibutr) is sent to fight in a war and leaves his pregnant wife, Nak (Intira Jaroenpura). Mak is injured and barely survives. He returns home to his doting wife and child, or so he thinks.
Four songs from His Majesty Bhumibol Adulyadej's (also known as King Rama IX) royal songbook have now inspired four leading Thai directors to interpret their spirit and meaning into four short films.
A performer finds a trunk full of puppets which he decides to use for his show. But he slowly begins to suspect that the puppets are cursed.
Nonzee recreates the life of a notorious late-1950s gangster. Dang Bireley's (nicknamed after his favorite soda-pop) had Elvis and James Dean fixations and lived predictably fast and died predictably young. He first killed a man at the age of 13, and became famous in Phra Nakorn as a Chinese protection racketeer from the age of 18. Everything swung his way until one of Thailand's many coups d'etat imposed martial law and drove the city's gangsters up-country. Dang and his loyal cohort Piak had little trouble facing down the local hicks, but bristled when forced to operate a long side their arch-enemy Pu, known as Bottle-Bomb.
On hearing the news of the death of his sister, a Buddhist monk leaves the temple where he has lived since childhood and struggles to adjust to life on the outside as an uncle to a young niece and as a businessman running a hair salon in a small Thai town in a southern province. He even must learn to ride a bicycle and zip up his trousers without injuring himself. He is confronted by a flood of feelings - sexual, for a woman and family friend across the street; as well as fear and hatred for the Muslims, who he believes is responsible for his sister's death and other sorrows in his life.
Manga creator Tsukasa Hojo's debut live-action film. 'Angel Sign' is Hojo's debut as a director, which is made by editing a number of short films into one movie. Hojo directs the "Prologue" and "Epilogue" stories, while a different director will handle each of the other stories, which were selected in Silent Manga Audition. All the stories will have no spoken lines, and will only have video and music.
Mat (Piyathida) a mother forced to raise her son Tan (Jirayu) on her own after being widowed early in her marriage. In this Mat gets help from Watt (Noppachai), who has been in love with her for a long time. Tan is expected to be like his dad but instead he wants to escape what he regards as the narrow confines of his mother's world. His dreams looks like they are coming true when he meets June (Jarinporn), a free spirit who knows what she wants from life. The young woman quickly makes up for what Tan feels he's missing and in the process helps him reconnect with his mother.
In a classic case of past mistakes impressing themselves on the present, albeit with surprising role reversals, a pair of sadistic murders bring together cop Tien, profiler Kuen, spoiled playboy Key and domestic violence survivor Kwang, entangling the four a puzzle of murder and history.
Also Directed by Prachya Pinkaew
In Bangkok, the young Kham was raised by his father in the jungle with elephants as members of their family. When his old elephant and the baby Kern are stolen by criminals, Kham finds that the animals were sent to Sidney. He travels to Australia, where he locates the baby elephant in a restaurant owned by the evil Madame Rose, the leader of an international Thai mafia. With the support of the efficient Thai sergeant Mark, who was involved in a conspiracy, Kham fights to rescue the animal from the mobsters.
Zen, an autistic teenage girl with powerful martial skills, gets money to pay Zin's treatment, her sick mother, seeking out all the people who owe Zin money.
The film puts together 4 love stories delivered by 4 leading filmmakers. Each story offers unique angles of love from different perspective and storytelling style. 4 Romance contains 4 genres: comedy, drama, action, and musical. Discover the answer and the meaning of love in 4 Romance.
Kham is the last in long line of guards who once watched over the King of Thailand's war elephants. Traditionally, only the perfect elephants could successfully help defend the throne, after his harrowing quest to retrieve the elephants, Kham returns to his village to live in peace. But for someone as good in martial arts as him, peace is but a wishful thought...
A group of friends visit the scenic town of Pai between Chiang Mai and Mae Hong Song to look for an idea to make a good movie that will best describe the story of this town. They have different opinions on this town so they decide that each person will go out and find their own ideas to put in the movie.
Korean family made up of taekwondo experts moves to Thailand, where they set up a taekwondo gym. However, one member of the family, Taeju, wants to become a famous pop singer instead. The family becomes famous after stopping treasure robbers.
In a big city, people lead their own lives with hope and determination. For some, the lives can be sweetened a bit with the flavor of love. The movie about lives in the big city that sees the intermingles between people from different social statuses and class. The story of a high fly business man who falls for a girl who he has only heard her voice. An old man who can not remember anything in his present day while still remember his first love from years ago. A young boy who lost all hope and found new ones while he decided to jump from a sky bridge. All of them are connected through the local country songs that tell them of hope and love.
Veena and Mora who have lived with their father since their mother, a krasue hunter, died. Veena has to take care of her younger sister who has inherited the krasue curse and whose body is currently in the transformation stage. In the meantime, Mora is being closely watched by Ratree, queen of the Krasue tribe, who is waiting to take revenge for her mother’s acts.
When the head of a statue sacred to a village is stolen, a young martial artist goes to the big city and finds himself taking on the underworld to retrieve it.
Also Directed by Chookiat Sakveerakul
The film puts together 4 love stories delivered by 4 leading filmmakers. Each story offers unique angles of love from different perspective and storytelling style. 4 Romance contains 4 genres: comedy, drama, action, and musical. Discover the answer and the meaning of love in 4 Romance.
The parents of young Oui have been murdered, now the girl has to move into the haunted house to the inclined aunt. The operating a lucrative Heilpraktikerei, employs several employees and keeping up on the fourth floor under the roof spirits trapped, knowing how various gossip to report. Oui believes first no word, but then has to give in the first nights that the legends might be something after a few scary experiences. Together with the little cousin she goes the thing on the reason creepy.
The story is about a group of high school boys with Tay (Alexander Simon Rendel), Mick (Natthaphong Aroonnet), Bae (Oran Kiratikunthorn) and their new friends. Come join the Bird group, who came to tell a strange story to the 3 of them that last night, while on MSN, it turned out that "Kie" appeared to greet him. Even though everyone knows that Kie (Pisit Chotchurangkun), an old friend in the group during the second year of high school, has been intertwined between disappearance or death for a long time.
A Chookiat Sakveerakul Film
A group of high-school boys in Chiang Mai enjoy the finals years of their adolescent lives and try to negotiate the unpredictable path of growing up. The story centers on Tee, a sensitive boy who lives with his wayward and lovesick sister. After a domestic complication, Tee runs away from the northern city and ends up in Pattaya. As his friends and teachers try to bring him back for the final exam, Tee learns his life lessons the unusual way.
In the first segment, recent secondary school graduate Nay (Chutavuth Pattarakampol) is taking photographs of his school campus at night when he meets a younger student acquaintance, Beam (Kittisak Patomburana). The two talk about their experiences, relationships and plans for the future, but have to part as morning comes. The second segment tells the story of widow Buajan (Penpak Sirikul), who continues to find notes left by her late husband (Witoon Jaiprom), which keep her bonded to his memory but also prevents her from moving on. The last segment centres on the wedding of Chiang Mai native Preeya (Siraphan Wattanajinda) and Leng (Ruangsak Loychusak), a businessman from Phuket. Problems arise on the wedding day after Preeya has an encounter with her ex-boyfriend Pek (Supoj Chancharoen), although she is supported by her aunt (Puttachat Pongsuchat) and brother (Witwisit Hiranyawongkul).
It has been three months since Nott become full of sadness and suffering like he has never been. It's because that one night which cause him to lose Pla his beloved girlfriend in the motorcycle accident. He wants to forget but cannot, his hear is full of guilt and sorrow and almost burst with grief. The only way for him to get through this is to meet Pla again in her afterlife, so he tries to find a way to see ghost.
Pusit is having the worst day of his life. He just lost his job and is in serious debt. That is all about to change when he receives a mysterious phone call with a tempting offer. If he could complete 13 tasks, he will win 100 million Baht. Pusit agrees and the game begins.
Two young boys are best friends living quiet family lives in Bangkok. Their lives are disrupted when one boy's older sister goes missing on a jungle trip. The shattered family moves away, separating the boys. Years later, now in their late teens, the boys meet again. One of them is now the leader of an aspiring boy band whose managing assistant bears a striking resemblance to the lost sister. The boys must deal with their family and social lives and their feelings for each other.
Thai directors give their take on Thailand's capital city of Bangkok. 1. Bangkok Blues 2. Bangkok Stories 3. I Love Bangkok 4. Lost but not Forgotten 5. Maha Nakorn 6. Pi Makham 7. Sightseeing 8. Silence 9. Sisters
Also Directed by Kongkiat Khomsiri
In the southern province of Chumporn in 1939, Khun Pan is a police detective who defeats a gang of bandits despite having just one bullet in his pistol. Khun Pun is renowned for his sorcery and spells, which give him a supernatural protective power. After defeating the Pa Daeng gang, Khun Pan volunteers to take on the most dangerous mission: to hunt the ferocious Alhawee Yalu, the dark lord of the southernmost provinces who’s also skilled in black magic and who spreads terror across the Budo Mountain. Alhawee Yalu is feared for his invulnerability – no bullets can hurt him – while his dagger is the most ruthless weapon.
A young thief is living his life just for fun and troubled. When he meets his childhood crush, he decides to join an army to win the girl's heart over a perfect boy who is a soldier and falls in love with her. From Zero to Hero, he has trained himself hard to be ready to fight after he found out that there's a villain trying to conquer the city.
A cohabitation comedy about a ghost of a high school girl who has been dead for 5 years and an exorcist college boy with the ability to see and hear ghosts. What he’s discovered over the years is that he can touch them and fight them off, so when he’s in need of a part-time job and can’t find one that pays well enough, he starts putting ads online as an exorcist for hire. His ad: “Will face off with your ghosts. Chances of winning: virgin ghosts 80%, bachelor ghosts 40%, child ghosts 97%, the rest 50%.” One night he goes out on the job and faces off with a schoolgirl ghost, and during the fight, they accidentally kiss and sparks fly."
Jod is a gangster who has been sent to jail as a result of a military coup that brings a new order to the streets. In the young gangsters' neighbourhood, uniformed officer Neung rules like a dictator and is a frequent thorn in the side of Jod's gang. When he emerges from prison, Jod is a changed man with a determination to set things right.
Goodness will return soon The magic was so strong that he never had "police" All faith in the law and the government There is nowhere to be suitable for him as one of the black robbers of "Tiger".
A group of high school friends reunite after two years when one of their fathers' committed suicide. They all spend the night at their friend's place. When darkness falls, strange things begin to happen to them one by one. It is as if someone is using the black arts on them in revenge for an act this group of friends committed together back at high school
A serial killer is preying on the rich and influential, exposing their sexual proclivities, dismembering them and dumping them and their severed body parts in various locations around Thailand. The police officer on the case is not even close to finding the killer, but given an ultimatum to solve it in 15 days, Papa Chin (Chatchai Plenpanich) turns to the one man he doesn’t want to use — an imprisoned hitman named Tai (Arak Amornsupasiri), who thinks the killer is a friend of his from childhood. Tai let out of prison while his girlfriend Noi is kept under close watch by Chin. Tai heads back to his hometown to search for clues about where his old friend might be. As he recalls his childhood and friendship with the troubled boy Nut, the events of the present day crystallize until Tai is confronted with a shocking reality.
A brother and sister face hardships while coping with their father's illness and the loss of their mother. This is among nine films commissioned by Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej for the 2012 Terdglao Project.
After losing his memory from an accident, Tan tried to find his identity. Eventually, he found something and led him back to his home sweet home. The more he knows them, the more he learns to fear of their secrets of his so-called family.
After learning the art of muay thai fighting from skilled masters, small town friends Piak and Phao move their passion to Bangkok, where they become active in underground activities that put what they've learned to the test. But in the process of fighting for their lives, they also resurrect the sport -- and cement the bonds of their lifelong friendship.