The Adventure of Iron Pussy

(Hua jai tor ra nong)

featuring

Michael Shaowanasai, Krissada Terrence, Darunee Kritboonyalai, Jutharat Attakorn,

Thailand’s indie filmmaker laureate Apichatpong Weerasethakul followed his Cannes prize-winning Blissfully Yours with this outrageously over-the-top musical Western featuring a transvestite secret agent on a James Bond–like undercover mission. A former go-go boy, Iron Pussy is a 7-Eleven clerk by day and a glamorous superheroine by night, aided by his motorcycle taxi–driving sidekick, Pew. Based on a series of short videos by San Francisco Art Institute alumnus—and Iron Pussy himself—Michael Shaowanasai, this camp classic fits in with Weerasethakul’s oeuvre, subsuming genres (and genders) as nonchalantly as the director blurred the boundaries between documentary and fiction in his other works.

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FILM DETAILS 
Screenwriter
  • Apichatpong Weerasethakul
  • Michael Shaowanasai
Cinematographer
  • Surachet Thongme
Language
  • Thai
  • with English subtitles
Print Info
  • Color
  • Digital
  • 90 mins
Source
  • GMM Grammy Public Company Limited