Phra Rod Meree

Phra Rod Meree (Thai: พระรถเมรี) is a 1981 Thai fantasy film. Directed by Sompote Sands,[1] it is one of the most successful Thai feature films ever made in Thailand.[2]

Phra Rod Meree
Thai theatrical poster
Directed bySompote Sands
StarringDam Datsakorn
Toon Hiransap
Supansa Nuengpirom
Ampha Pusit
Duangcheewan Komolsen
Release date
April 11, 1981
Running time
120 min
CountryThailand
LanguageThai

The story is based on The Twelve Sisters, a Thai folklore myth that originated in one of the Jataka tales.[3] This same story was also adapted into a Thai fantasy lakhon.[4]

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.[5]

See also

References
  1. Sompote Sands
  2. Thai-Style Kaiju: The films of Sompote Sands Part VIII - Phra Rot-Meri (1981)
  3. พระรถเมรี (in Thai)
  4. พระรถเมรี (Phra rot meri) - YouTube
  5. Phra Rot Meri (พระรถเมรี) movie poster


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