Beautiful boxer [dvd] / Here! Films ; Regent Entertainment ; Arclight Films ; GMM Pictures presents ; screenplay by Ekachai Uekrongtham, Desmond Sim Kim Jin ; directed & produced by Ekachai Uekrongtham.
Asanee Suwan, Sorapong Chatree, Orn-anong Panyawong, Kyoko Inoue, Sitiporn Niyom. Title and credits in Thai with English translations. Special features: director's message ; theatrical trailer ; teasers ; interviews with cast and crew ; 'Inside Beautiful Boxer' featurette ; behind-the-scenes fight footage ; trailers. Originally produced as a motion picture in 2004.
Summary:
Based on the true story of Thailand's famed transvestite kickboxer, Beautiful Boxer is an 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 (affectionately known as Nong Toom in Thailand) sets out to master the most masculine and lethal sport of Muay Thai (Thai boxing) to earn a living and to achieve his ultimate goal of a sex-change operation. Funny and packed with breathtaking Thai kickboxing sequences, Beautiful Boxer traces Nong Toom's childhood, teenage life as a traveling monk, and grueling days in boxing camps.
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