Lord Taksin (Jarun Ngandee), who leads the Attunaya in their war against the
Ang-Wa, falls in love with beautiful Mittaya (Thidarat Jandara) in a city he
has just conquered, & since she seems to share his feelings, he takes her
with him when he decides to take the coastal city Chantaboon next. However, the
way to Chantaboon is dangerous indeed, & full of traps set by the Ang-Wa,
& when Taksin's army gets into an ambsh, he asks his 2 top fighters Laung
Phichai (Prabadhon) & Laung Prom (Siriwat Chiwasut) to bring lady Mittaya
to safety. When Laung Phichai & Laung Prom meet up with Lord Taksin again,
the woman is gone, killed by Laung Phichai. Lord Taksin asks Laung Prom to
tell him how it happened: Laung Prom tells of a stranger, Yord (Nirut
Saosutchat) , who saved their lives once & offered his services to them
& their master, & Laung Phichai & laung Prom accepted, knowing they
would need a companion on their perilous journey. On their further way, Mittaya
suddenly showed amourous avances towards Laung Prom, who refused her though,
wanting to stay loyal to his master. However Yord it seemed was not so
resistant, & when Laung Phichai caught them making love, he beheaded them
both. Laung Phichai tells the story a little differently. According to him,
Mittaya also tried to chat him up & in doing so told him she was a spy for
the Ang-Wa. Laung Phichai however refused her advances, but when he saw her
making love to Yord, he killed the pair of them, thinking them both traitors. Lord
Taksin still is not content & calls in a third witness: Yord, who is not
dead at all but came to Taksin to prove his loyalty, & he tells about
Mittaya's efforts to sleep with pretty much everybody in sight, & how
valiantly he resisted her ... until she caught him off guard, which was exactly
the moment Laung Phichai caught them & he beheaded that treacherous bitzch,
but spared Yord's life since Yord once saved his. Seeing that all three men
have acted as loyal as could be, Taksin forgives them for killing his girl,
& together with them he has soon conquered Chantaboon. A nicely
filmed but utterly unremarkable variation on Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon,
that pretty much turns its source into a celebration of heroism, loyalism
&, let's face it, chauvinism.
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