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Thailand Films
9/6/2005 16:49

ZEE OUI¡ªTHE MAN EATER
Synopsis: In 1946, a young man from China named ZEE¨COUI immigrated to Thailand in hope of a better life. His only possession was the knife inherited from his mother. However, everything did not turn out as he had thought. He was bullied and humiliated from everyone around him. He tried desperately to survive in this world. He became ill. He missed his mother. At the same time, his instincts increasingly oppressed his thoughts and behaviors. He began killing children, consuming their heart and liver in the belief that it would make him stronger. Whenever he felt weak, he would kill again and again just to avoid the insecure feelings. At the end, he was caught and confessed to all the killings he had done. He was sentenced to the death penalty as the society returned to serenity. But why there were still missing and murdered children? Or the dead Zee¨COUI was.


BEAUTIFUL BOXER
Synopsis:Based on the true story of Thailand's famed transvestite kickboxer, BEAUTIFUL BOXER is a poignant action drama that punches straight into the heart and mind of a boy who fights like a man so he can become a woman.
Believing he's a girl trapped in a boy's body since childhood, Parinya Charoenphol sets out master the most masculine and lethal sport of Muay Thai to earn a living and to achieve his ultimate goal of total femininity. Touching, funny and packed with breathtaking Thai kickboxing scenes, Beautiful Boxer traces Nong Toom's childhood, teenage life as a traveling monk, grueling days in boxing camps and explosive matches where he knocks out most of his opponents across Thailand and Japan.



 Source:www.siff.com