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Biopic of transgender Muay Thai boxer Parinya Charoenphol who pursued the sport to pay for her gender reassignment surgery.Biopic of transgender Muay Thai boxer Parinya Charoenphol who pursued the sport to pay for her gender reassignment surgery.Biopic of transgender Muay Thai boxer Parinya Charoenphol who pursued the sport to pay for her gender reassignment surgery.
- Awards
- 6 wins & 7 nominations
Somsak Tuangmkuda
- Pi Moo
- (as Somsak Tuangmuka)
Kyôko Inoue
- Self (Female Wrestler)
- (as Kyoko Inoue)
Yuka Hyodo
- Japanese fan
- (as Hyouda Yuka)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
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Did you know
- ConnectionsFeatured in SexTV: Nong Toom/Allyson Mitchell/The Big Bang (2004)
- SoundtracksThe Girl I Knew
music by Bruno Brugnano
lyrics by Nitipong Hornak
Performed by Asanee Chotikul
Featured review
Sensitively handled story of paradoxes...
Based on the true story of a famous Thai transsexual, Nong Toom, this film is about a championship kick-boxer, who excels in the ultra-macho martial art, purely to raise money to finance his sex-change. While it could have been truly lurid and tasteless, the film has been handled with great seriousness and sympathy, with an excellent performance from a non-actor, real life kick-boxer Asanee Suwan, in the central role. This film brings to mind the similarly sensitively handled "Ma Vie En Rose", the Belgian film from a few years ago. Confused gender identity has been examined in several recent films, but what takes one aback is the testosterone-fueled back-drop against which this story unfolds. The gentle Nong Toom is derided and teased mercilessly for his effeminacy, but it's only when he realizes the one way by he can achieve his female body is via the kick-boxing championship prize money, that he becomes motivated and focused on this unlikely (for him) sport. Thai films are coming of age and the new crop of films and directors do not shy away from uncomfortable issues or controversial topics.
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- ilpintl
- Feb 24, 2005
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $133,920
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $8,713
- Jan 23, 2005
- Gross worldwide
- $638,317
- Runtime1 hour 58 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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