Phra Rod Meree
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Director Sompote Sands Country Thailand | 5.2/10 IMDb Duration Language Thai | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 1981 Similar Ka Kee, The 6 Ultra Brothers vs the Monster Army, Crocodile (1980 film) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Phra Rod Meree (Thai: พระรถเมรี) is a 1981 Thai fantasy film. Directed by Sompote Sands, it is one of the most successful Thai feature films ever made in Thailand.
The story is based on The Twelve Sisters, a Thai folklore myth that originated in one of the Jataka tales. This same story was also adapted into a Thai fantasy lakhon.
Plot
Twelve girls are abandoned by their parents because they are too poor to take care of them. The twelve daughters are rescued by an ogress (yaksha) in disguise who promises to take care about them as her own daughters.
Phra Rodasan (Phra Rod), the only surviving son of the twelve sisters, goes on a quest to the ogre kingdom in order to heal his mother and his aunts' blindness. There he falls in love with the ogress' daughter, Meree.
References
Phra Rod Meree WikipediaPhra Rod Meree IMDb Phra Rod Meree themoviedb.org