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Muay Thai Chaiya is a thailandais film of genre Drama directed by Kongkiat Khomsiri with Akara Amarttayakul
Muay Thai Chaiya (2007)
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Add to a movie listMuay Thai Chaiya or Chaiya (Thai: ไชยา) is a 2007 Thai drama film about two talented muay Thai boxers, boyhood friends whose lives take divergent paths after they arrive in Bangkok. The film is the solo directorial debut by Kongkiat Khomsiri, who had previously been among seven directors on Art of the Devil 2, and had written the screenplay for The Unseeable.
It premiered as the closing film at the 2007 Bangkok International Film Festival, and opened in wide release in Thailand cinemas on August 30, 2007.
Synopsis
Growing up in Chaiya, Surat Thani Province, three boys, Piak, Pao and Samor, are followers of Pao's brother, Krang (Prawit Kittichanthira), a legendary muay Thai fighter who is taught by Pao's father, Tew (Samart Payakaroon).Actors
Akara Amarttayakul
(Piak)
J. Don Ferguson
(Diamond Sullivan)
David La Haye
Kongkiat Khomsiri
(People at Train Station (uncredited))
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