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English Title: Monrak Transistor

Release Date in Thailand: 28 December 2001
Release Date in Hong Kong: 29 May 2003

Director: Prince Pen-ek Ruttanarung
Cast:Suppakorn KitsuwanasPhaen
Siriyakorn PudkavatasSadao
Samher KaewchonasYhord
Somlek SakdikulasSuwat
Pornthip PapanaiasDao
Ampon RattanawongasSiao


Phaen is a suburban young man with a great love for music. He never misses a chance to show off his voice at temple fairs in his village. It is at one of the fairs that he meets and falls in love with Sadao. On their wedding day, Phaen gives Sadao a transistor radio that the new family loves, and it also gives Phaen many a daydream of becoming a famous singer himself. Soon, Sadao is pregnant and it is hard for Phaen to leave home, but he has to enter military service.

While there, he enters a singing contest, and winds up first runner-up. So he decides to leave the service and heads for Bangkok to follow his dream. He spends two years in a band that never goes anywhere, and eventually is forced to work in a sugarcane plantation. But a fight causes him to lose his job. As things go from bad to worse, he recalls his transistor radio with fondness, for it evokes in his mind much better and more peaceful times, when dreams were still possible.

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