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Oi comes from up country to work in a fabrics producing factory. She gets to know a middle age lady named Jan whom she loves as her mother. Rungson, the plant manager, is very fond of Oi, so he moves her to work in the factory office. Jan wins the Queen of Factory, but soon she gets sick from tuberculosis, but the factory management just ignores her, so Oi has to take care of Jan. Rungson wants to send Oi to Japan to compete in the Cotton Queen pageant.
In May of 1941, a group of young army volunteers is recruited in Chumpon south of Bangkok. Many high-school students apply to join the group. When the Japanese army lands at Chumpon in December, they bravely fight against the army.
Hilltribes in the Golden Triangle region have different customs and beliefs. This is about the war between 2 such tribes a long time ago. The son of the headman of one tribe is trained in the art of war and the courage to fight the opposing tribe that has stolen their cattle, crops and opium. Once trained the war begins.
Highlights the hardships faced by a boy who works selling popsicles at the local train station and forced by economic circumstance to smuggle rice across the Thai-Malaysian border.
The story as told by his mother of an eighteen year old boy who falls into a life of drugs and violence and of the consequences to himself and those around him.
A man is wrongly sent in asylum by a greedy woman, who wants to get her husband's fortune. There he meets another woman left alone by a family in the asylum and decides to help her to get away.
Pleng had to flee the Logan village after he was severely assaulted. Many year has passed, he comes back to this place which is ruled by gangster. After godfather finds that he comes back and hiding information about precious things, so another hunt begins.
Linda, an escort girl at the Bar 21 was an eye witness of a murder case committed by Thanong's brother. Thanong was the guy she was having a good feeling with him. She was then brought to a situation which she had to make the decision.
A heartwarming movie about freshman university students coming of age and discovering the meaning of love.