''Phra Rod Meree'' ( th, พระรถเมรี) is a
1981
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fantasy film. Directed by
Sompote Sands
Sompote Saengduenchai ( th, สมโพธิ แสงเดือนฉาย; ; 24 May 1941 – 26 August 2021), internationally known as Sompote Sands, was a Thai film director, special effects creator and producer best known for directing ...
, it is one of the most successful Thai
feature film
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s ever made in
Thailand
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.
The story is based on
The Twelve Sisters
The legend of The Twelve Sisters or The Twelve Ladies, known as ''Nang Sip Song'' (นางสิบสอง) or as ''Phra Rot Meri'' (พระรถเมรี) in Thai and រឿងភ្នំនាងកង្រី ''Puthisen Neang ...
, a
Thai folklore
Thai folklore is a diverse set of mythology and traditional beliefs held by the Thai people. Most Thai folklore has a regional background for it originated in rural Thailand. With the passing of time, and through the influence of the media, large ...
myth that originated in one of the
Jataka tales
The Jātakas (meaning "Birth Story", "related to a birth") are a voluminous body of literature native to India which mainly concern the previous births of Gautama Buddha in both human and animal form. According to Peter Skilling, this genre is ...
. 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
An ogre (feminine: ogress) is a legendary monster depicted as a large, hideous, man-like being that eats ordinary human beings, especially infants and children. Ogres frequently feature in mythology, folklore, and fiction throughout the world ...
(
yaksha
The yakshas ( sa, यक्ष ; pi, yakkha, i=yes) are a broad class of nature-spirits, usually benevolent, but sometimes mischievous or capricious, connected with water, fertility, trees, the forest, treasure and wilderness. They appear in ...
) 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.
Phra Rot Meri (พระรถเมรี) movie poster
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See also
*The Twelve Sisters
The legend of The Twelve Sisters or The Twelve Ladies, known as ''Nang Sip Song'' (นางสิบสอง) or as ''Phra Rot Meri'' (พระรถเมรี) in Thai and រឿងភ្នំនាងកង្រី ''Puthisen Neang ...
*Nang Sib Song (lakorn)
The legend of The Twelve Sisters or The Twelve Ladies, known as ''Nang Sip Song'' (นางสิบสอง) or as ''Phra Rot Meri'' (พระรถเมรี) in Thai and រឿងភ្នំនាងកង្រី ''Puthisen Neang ...
*Ka Kee
''Ka Kee'' ( th, กากี) or ''Unfaithful '' is a 1980 Thai fantasy film based on the classical versified in ''Kaki Klon Suphap'' ( th, กากีกลอนสุภาพ) written by Thai classical poet Chao Phraya Phrakhlong (Hon) ( th, ...
References
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1981 films
Thai-language films
Films directed by Sompote Sands
Thai fantasy films
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