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Thailand has been producing gay-themed movies (often ladyboy or kathoey themed) at a surprising rate over the last few years. Doug Sanders looks at the current hit, Bangkok Love Story, and recent productions.
A three-story banner on the side of the great MBK mall in central Bangkok showed two shirtless men lounging together on a sofa. One has his arm around the other’s waist. His hand slips under the top of the other mans jeans. Man number two has a pistol in his hand. The movie that was being advertised was Bangkok Love Story. The Thai language title, Puen Koo Rak Meung Wah, translates something like “Friends: I Fucking Love You,” a rather coarse expression of mateship (or more). The writer-director, Poj Arnon, insists that he had the idea for the story well before Brokeback Mountain.
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