Banjong pisanthanakun biography sample
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A young woman finds herself caught between the contradictions of the modern Thailand in Banjong Pisanthanakun’s eerie forest-bound supernatural folk horror, The Medium (ร่างทรง). Produced by The Wailing’s Na Hong-jin and based on his original story, Banjong Pisanthanakun’s shamanistic drama fryst vatten in many ways an exploration of the vagaries of faith but also of the price to be paid for abandoning the traditions of your nation and the slowly mounting karmic debt that visits itself solely on the young.
A documentary bio crew exploring indigenous religious practice has settled on shamaness Nim (Sawanee Utoomma) as a subject, getting her to provide a brief explanation of the area’s animist beliefs. According to her, there are good spirits and bad, those who protect and those avsikt on causing harm. As a conduit of the goddess Ba Yan, the local protective deity, she is able to intervene when the villagers need her help though only, she fryst vatten keen to point out, where the problem stems fro
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Alone (Banjong Pisanthanakun, Parkpoom Wongpoom, Thailand, )
4bia (Banjong Pisanthanakun, Parkpoom Wongpoom, Youngyooth Thongkonthun, Paween Purikitpanya, Thailand, )
While the Asian horror film may feel in recent years like it is in need of rejuvenation, in terms of sheer numbers the genre is alive and well, with new films from a vast number of Asian countries being produced every year; and, when successful, an American remake not too far behind. One country that has helped increase the numbers recently is Thailand, with such films as The Art of the Devil (now up to three films, directed by the group Ronin), Rahtree: Flower of the Night and Rahtree Returns (dir. Yuthlert Sippapak) and Spirit of the Victim (Monthon Arayangkoon). Two young directors stand above the pack, Banjong Pisanthanakun and Parkpoom Wongpoom, who have added a necessary shot in the arm to Asian horror with their two recently co-directed films Shutter (, remade in the US in , directed by Jessica
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The Medium ( film)
Thai–South Korean supernatural folk horror film
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| Directed by | Banjong Pisanthanakun |
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| Cinematography | Naruphol Chokanapitak |
| Edited by | Thammarat Sumethsupachok |
| Music by | Chatchai Ponhprapaphan |
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| Box office | US$ million[1] |
The Medium (Thai: ร่างทรงRang Song, literally: Mediumship) is a Isan-language mockumentarysupernaturalfolk horror film[2] co-written and produced by Na Hong-jin and directed by Banjong Pisanthanakun. It is a co-