Invisible Waves

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  • Movie: Invisible Waves
  • Thai: คำพิพากษาของมหาสมุทร
  • Director: Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
  • Writer: Prabda Yoon
  • Producer: Wouter Barendrecht, Michael J. Werner
  • Executive Producers Miky Lee, Faruk Alatan, Daniel Yu
  • Cinemotagraphy: Christopher Doyle
  • Release Date: February 14, 2006
  • Runtime: 130 min.
  • Language: Thai
  • Country: Thailand

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This atmospheric, violent thriller revolves around a hitman called Kyoji who has just killed his lover, Seiko. She was the wife of Kyoji’s boss, Wiwat, who, when he heard about the affair, hired his rival to murder the unfaithful Seiko. Kyoji hides himself away on a cruise ship bound for Thailand. On board he meet a mysterious beauty named Noi. A passionate affair ensues. Their destinies are more interwoven than Kyoji and Noi could ever imagine.

Overwhelmed by guilt for his deeds, Kyoji feels as if the whole world were against him. His passage to Phuket is not the only event to be accompanied by the strangest of incidents. No sooner does this ex-killer reach Thailand than his problems redouble and take on sinister proportions. For now he’s being followed by a number of colleagues, paid assassins, sent by his for­mer boss. As Kyoji fights for his life and struggles to cope with mounting feelings of guilt he discovers the truth about the secretive Noi. Furious, wounded and thirsting for revenge, Kyoji might even make it home again.

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Pen-ek's new film reunites key members of the Last Life in the Universe team to even more mind-warping effect. This time Asano plays Kyoji, a sous-chef in Macau, who's ordered to kill his boss's wife. (He's having an affair with the woman at the time, which makes the murder both easier and harder.) Boss, played by veteran Thai matinee idol Toon Hiranyasup, tells him to lay low and sends him on a slow boat from Hong Kong to Phuket; on the cruise he meets a seductive Korean woman and in Thailand he meets a jovial but untrustworthy Japanese yakuza. And then things start to go badly wrong in Kyoji's life... You could very well read this as a tale of bad karma coming home to roost, but it also plays as an absurdist anti-thriller, complete with grunge-noir settings, several layers of black humour and large doses of guilt and self-punishment. Nice to know that Pen-ek extended the shoot in Phuket to help the island recover from the tsunami.

[edit] Oscar controversy

Invisible Waves had been announced asThailand's entry for Academy Award for Best Best Foreign Language Film at the the 79th Academy Awards by the Federation of National Film Associations of Thailand, but was then withdrawn and replaced with Ahimsa ... Stop to Run, which upset the Invisible Waves production company, Five Star Production. The film federation said that the reason for the change was that a print of the film wouldn't be available in time to send to the Academy for consideration, but Five Star, sales agent Fortissimo Films and distributor Palm Pictures stated that was not true. Earlier, the federation had opposed the film's opening of the 2006 Bangkok International Film Festival, stating that since it was an international co-production it was not truly a Thai film.

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