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Sat pralāt = Tropical malady /

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"Tropical malady" is two distinct halves, divided into two complementary and wholly necessary pieces. The first half is a love story. A young soldier, Keng (Banlop Lō̜mnō̜i), is assigned to patrol the Thai forests, and he falls for a country boy, Tong (Sakdā Kǣobūadī), a worker in a rural...

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Other Authors: Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 1970- (Screenwriter, Director), Meaux, Charles de (Producer), Banlop Lō̜mnō̜i (Actor), Sakdā Kǣobūadī (Actor), Vichit Tanapanitch (director of photography.), Jarin Pengpanitch (director of photography.), Vialard, Jean-Louis (director of photography.), Pilaitip Jamniam (Costume designer)
Format: Video
Language:Thai
Language Notes:In Thai; with English subtitles.
Published: [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, [2022]
Subjects:
Thailand. > Kō̜ngthap Bok > Gay people > Drama.
Gay couples > Thailand > Drama.
Missing persons > Thailand > Drama.
Folklore > Thailand > Drama.
Gay men > Thailand > Drama.
Shamans > Thailand > Drama.
Villages > Thailand > Drama.
Thailand. > Kō̜ngthap Bok
Folklore
Gay couples
Gay men
Gay people
Missing persons
Shamans
Villages
Thailand
Films for the hearing impaired
Fiction films
Feature films
Drama
Gay films.
Fantasy films.
Romance films.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Internet videos.
Foreign films.
Motion pictures, Thai.
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Summary:"Tropical malady" is two distinct halves, divided into two complementary and wholly necessary pieces. The first half is a love story. A young soldier, Keng (Banlop Lō̜mnō̜i), is assigned to patrol the Thai forests, and he falls for a country boy, Tong (Sakdā Kǣobūadī), a worker in a rural Thai village's ice plant. In the second half, that love story has been swallowed by a folk tale, in which the spirit of a man has found its way into the body of a tiger. A soldier patrols the forest, looking for a villager who has disappeared while a voice-over relates the story of a shaman who has the power to turn himself into a tiger. Is the soldier Keng? Is the missing villager--or, stranger yet, the tiger--Tong?
Item Description:Title from title frames.
Originally produced as a Thai motion picture in 2004.
Physical Description:1 online resource (streaming video file) (114 minutes): .flv file, sound, color
Production Credits:Directors of photography, Wichit Thanāphānit, Čharin Phengphānit, Jean-Louis Vialard ; editor, Lī Chātamēthīkun ; costume designer, Pilaitip Jamniam ; production designer, Akekarat Homlaor.