Red Bamboo

8.0

Genre: Drama
Run time: 123 min
Premiere: 1979. June 6.

Director: Permpol Cheiarun
Writer: Permpol Cheiarun Kukrit Pramoj
Starring: Sorapong Chatree Suraphol Viroonrak Lalana Sulawan Suchao Pongwilai

In a Thai village childhood friends Kwen and Sompan are looking forward to make the world a better place within their ideology and beliefs. Kwen is a communist and Sompan is a monk. The film is a subtle metaphor for the troubled Thai political situation of the 1970's.