The ever-busy Japanese character actor Tadanobu Asano — currently having a moment as one of the stars of Disney’s hit samurai series Shōgun — has joined the cast of Thai director Pen-ek Ratanaruang’s upcoming culinary thriller Morte Cucina. The actor and director last collaborated two decades ago on the romantic crime film Last Life in the Universe (2003), which was Thailand’s official submission to the Oscars that year and won Asano the best actor award at the Venice Film Festival.
Set in contemporary Bangkok, Morte Cucina follows a talented young female chef named Sao who has a chance encounter with a man who sexually abused her when she was a teen. “Using her talents in the kitchen, Sao sets her plan of revenge in motion — achieving a rather unexpected result,” the film’s logline reads.
The project’s producers are keeping the nature of Asano’s role under wraps for now,...
Set in contemporary Bangkok, Morte Cucina follows a talented young female chef named Sao who has a chance encounter with a man who sexually abused her when she was a teen. “Using her talents in the kitchen, Sao sets her plan of revenge in motion — achieving a rather unexpected result,” the film’s logline reads.
The project’s producers are keeping the nature of Asano’s role under wraps for now,...
- 3/26/2024
- by Patrick Brzeski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The bond of love is even greater than that of blood, which has been explored in the Thai series Analog Squad. The director, Nithiwat Tharatorn, deserves accolades for trying to portray the beauty of familial bonds in the eight episodes of the series. Pond resorts to hiring a set of actors to play his wife and kids in front of his father, who is on his deathbed. The bond that the elderly develop with the actors is sure to move audiences. Every character in the series deals with certain familial issues, and how they manage to tackle them has also been shed light upon in the show! The excellent cast of the series includes Namfon Kullanut, Nopachai Chaiyanam, and others. The question of whether Pond will ever be able to confess his lies to his parents will keep bugging the audience throughout the series! Let’s find out what eventually...
- 12/7/2023
- by Debjyoti Dey
- Film Fugitives
The culinary has always been one of the most popular themes in cinema internationally, with numerous fiction films and documentaries from all over the world being constantly produced. Sitisiri Mongkolsiri also uses the concept as his base for “Hunger”, but probably due to his past in horror movies, as in “Krasue” for example, he also induces the narrative with such elements, along with a very strong social commentary aspect.
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Set in Bangkok, the movie follows a street cook named Aoy, who has been working in her family's tavern, but is quite fed up with the lack of any kind of perspective regarding her future. When Tone, a young cook that works for the most famous culinary service in the country, Hunger, eats at the place, he decides to give her a chance to audition for a job there, under the notorious chef Paul.
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Set in Bangkok, the movie follows a street cook named Aoy, who has been working in her family's tavern, but is quite fed up with the lack of any kind of perspective regarding her future. When Tone, a young cook that works for the most famous culinary service in the country, Hunger, eats at the place, he decides to give her a chance to audition for a job there, under the notorious chef Paul.
- 5/3/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
A kitchen is a tense place full of burning fires, bubbling oil, and crew rushing around to complete dishes as the head chef barks orders, and the tensions inside the kitchen usually serve as the plot of culinary movies like “Burnt” or “Chef.” However, Sitisiri Mongkolsiri’s movie “Hunger” is about Chef Paul (Nopachai Chaiyanam), who cares a little too much about perfection and his standing as a renowned chef and takes pride in his work. Pride is a necessary virtue in any workplace to ensure people can enjoy what they do, but it’s this pride that leads to the destruction of Chef Paul in “Hunger” when it goes over the top. Here’s how Paul goes from one of the most respected chefs in Thailand to a criminal in Mongkolsiri’s movie.
Going by Mark Mylod’s 2023 movie “The Menu,” head chefs can be a little eccentric when...
Going by Mark Mylod’s 2023 movie “The Menu,” head chefs can be a little eccentric when...
- 4/10/2023
- by Indrayudh Talukdar
- Film Fugitives
Hunger is a film directed by Sitisiri Mongkolsiri and starring Chutimon Chuengcharoensukying and Nopachai Chaiyanam.
Hunger is an apparently low-key Thai film which lands this Saturday on Netflix, with a very interesting aesthetic and a story to tell.
Plot
A famous chef notices a “street” cook. The girl has talent, and he decides to hire her as part of his select group of assistants to serve the upper class of the country.
But the food holds a secret.
Hunger (2023) About the Movie
Interesting, to say the least. A movie about cooking served in the form of a thriller with strain spikes and, above all, a good high-contrast photography.
A film that has a clear axis around which the other stories revolve: social differences and injustice. Whether or not to go into social matters, the film raises this issue well, and knows how to distinguish both environments in rhythm as well as in the aesthetic tone.
Hunger is an apparently low-key Thai film which lands this Saturday on Netflix, with a very interesting aesthetic and a story to tell.
Plot
A famous chef notices a “street” cook. The girl has talent, and he decides to hire her as part of his select group of assistants to serve the upper class of the country.
But the food holds a secret.
Hunger (2023) About the Movie
Interesting, to say the least. A movie about cooking served in the form of a thriller with strain spikes and, above all, a good high-contrast photography.
A film that has a clear axis around which the other stories revolve: social differences and injustice. Whether or not to go into social matters, the film raises this issue well, and knows how to distinguish both environments in rhythm as well as in the aesthetic tone.
- 4/8/2023
- by Movies Martin Cid Magazine
- Martin Cid Magazine - Movies
"Do it until it's right!" Netflix has launched the official trailer for an intense thriller film called Hunger, made in Thailand about the food industry in Thailand. At first glance this reminds me of The Menu, but it also seems a bit more like FX's "The Bear" meets Eyes Wide Shut (yeah check it out). With a few sprinkles of The Platform thrown in. "Experience the kind of hunger you have never seen before... in Hunger." A woman running her family's noodle restaurant receives an invite to join the fine-dining industry under the tutelage of an infamous chef. Model Chutimon Chuengcharoensukying stars as Amy, a young woman who gets taken into a high society cooking company called "Hunger" and learns how insane people are up there. The film also stars Nopachai Jayanama and Gunn Svasti Na Ayudhya . This will be streaming on Netflix in April worldwide - I definitely need to watch this.
- 3/9/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Netflix is broadening its original content output from Thailand, a country with a history of punching above its weight with original genre filmmaking, TV production and creative advertising.
Netflix has produced and released a smattering of individual originals from Thailand over the past few years — including reality series The Stranded and crime thriller Bangkok Breaking — but the lineup unveiled by the streamer at a glitzy event in Bangkok Tuesday evening represents its first full Thai slate. The slate includes four films and two series.
“From broad comedy to twisty thrillers, this is our most diverse lineup of titles to date in Thailand,” said Netflix’s director of content for Thailand, Yongyoot Thongkongtoon.
“While we explore class disparity in culinary film Hunger, pay homage to itinerant mobile film troupes in Mon Rak Nak Pak and follow the emotional journey of strangers pretending to be a family in Analog Squad,...
Netflix has produced and released a smattering of individual originals from Thailand over the past few years — including reality series The Stranded and crime thriller Bangkok Breaking — but the lineup unveiled by the streamer at a glitzy event in Bangkok Tuesday evening represents its first full Thai slate. The slate includes four films and two series.
“From broad comedy to twisty thrillers, this is our most diverse lineup of titles to date in Thailand,” said Netflix’s director of content for Thailand, Yongyoot Thongkongtoon.
“While we explore class disparity in culinary film Hunger, pay homage to itinerant mobile film troupes in Mon Rak Nak Pak and follow the emotional journey of strangers pretending to be a family in Analog Squad,...
- 10/11/2022
- by Patrick Brzeski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
By Lyberis Dion
‘’Headshot’’, the critically successful adaptation of the novel ‘’Rain Falling Up the Sky,’’ by acclaimed Thai author Win Lyovarin, is a gritty neo-noir that transcends its genre’s boundaries by raising important questions about morality, and using a handful of allegorical situations that almost work as a subtle sociopolitical statement. It is not a great film, but a very good one from Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, one of the greatest Asian directors working today.
Tul, an ex-cop turned hit-man, gets shot in the head and wakes up from a coma three months later, only to realize he now sees everything upside down. What follows next is a fairly familiar noirish tale of betrayal and revenge that rings quite a few similar notes with classic film-noirs (e.g. the femme fatale presence), while showcasing a handful of westernized film influences. For instance, the protagonist faintly resembles the...
‘’Headshot’’, the critically successful adaptation of the novel ‘’Rain Falling Up the Sky,’’ by acclaimed Thai author Win Lyovarin, is a gritty neo-noir that transcends its genre’s boundaries by raising important questions about morality, and using a handful of allegorical situations that almost work as a subtle sociopolitical statement. It is not a great film, but a very good one from Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, one of the greatest Asian directors working today.
Tul, an ex-cop turned hit-man, gets shot in the head and wakes up from a coma three months later, only to realize he now sees everything upside down. What follows next is a fairly familiar noirish tale of betrayal and revenge that rings quite a few similar notes with classic film-noirs (e.g. the femme fatale presence), while showcasing a handful of westernized film influences. For instance, the protagonist faintly resembles the...
- 4/8/2020
- by Lyberis Dionysopoulos
- AsianMoviePulse
Title: Headshot Directed by: Pen-Ek Ratanauruang Starring: Nopachai Chaiyanam, Sirin Horwang, Chanokporn Sayoungkul Thai cinema is undergoing somewhat of a transformation. In the past year, we’ve had both The Raid: Redemption and now, Headshot. Both are extremely violent films that are based around a sense of heightened reality. While Redemption is entirely centered on its protagonist’s physical abilities, Headshot is reliant on its protagonist’s inner struggle–but the physical, brutal nature of his job is no less present. It’s a far more cerebral take on the role of the assassin, a type of film that is quite common in Hollywood. The story concerns a cop who refuses to be blackmailed, and [ Read More ]
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- 12/15/2012
- by justin
- ShockYa
It’s back to the Big Apple with another batch of some of the most compelling titles that this year’s Tribeca Film Festival has to offer. This time around, we’re zinging over to Thailand for an eye-opening spin on the crime noir (no other film this year will make you want to invest in a helmet more), before zipping back to the U S of A and over to the left coast for two films about life in Los Angeles, relationships on the rocks, and cinematic twists that both surprise and sustain. Which one of these films marks the voice of an exciting new independent director and which will leave audiences begging for more, of all things, gimmicky behavior? As is the best part of all film festivals, let’s discover something new. Check out our latest batch of mini-reviews for Headshot, Caroline and Jackie, and Double or Nothing after the break. Headshot...
- 4/25/2012
- by Kate Erbland
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Based on Win Lyovarin‘s novel, Headshot (Fon Tok Kuen Fah) is a noir assassin story that features a killer who takes a bullet to the brain – leaving him seeing the world upside down. Considering that it’s from Thailand, has a crazy premise and involves violence, there’s a word of warning that should come along with writer/director Pen-En Ratanaruang‘s film: it’s far more drama than action film. For whatever reason, Ratanaruang and company chose to abandon anything about the story’s gimmick that makes it viable and loaded down their structure with faulty flashbacks and confused caricatures. It’s a fairly standard crime story with wasted potential, but it has a leading man that comes close to making it worthwhile. Tul (Jayanama Nopachai) is a hitman, but he used to be a cop. The good kind. Unfortunately, the good kind of cop often goes after the wrong kind of bad guy, and...
- 2/16/2012
- by Cole Abaius
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
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