Tigress of King River
Tigress of King River ( or "Sab Suea Thi Lam Nam Kasat") is a Thai 2002 adventure thriller film directed and written by Bhandit Rittakol. Summary. The story takes place the in 19th year of the King Rama V's reign. When the British captain Peter Bain is busted for trying to sell defective firearms to influential Chinese non-timber forest product trader named Yang. Forced to hunt wild game with these firearms along with Yang's men, Bain links up with ex-monk Wan and Karen-American female guide and hunter Julia, who he meets on  the way to the jungle. The group sets off to hunt a long-tusked elephant, said to be protected by a demon tigress that can transform itself into a woman. The tigress is supposedly possessed by the revengeful spirit of Nian, a young woman who was tortured and killed in the King River Battle near the Three Pagoda Pass almost a century earlier. As Wan learns more about the tigress myth, he tries to release Nian's spirit, but Yang's men want to destroy Nian and get the elephant. With greed, resentment, and karma from past lives encircling the  group, violence is surely around the corner. Production and reception. Tigress of King River is the final work of Bhandit Rittakol a veteran filmmaker who made many hits in the 1980s and 1990s. This is Rittakol's first adventure thriller and special effects film. Of the works that are mostly comedic genre. Due to the change in film production, the response was not good. It is considered a lesser-known work of Rittakol. Although the story takes place at the King River, but it was filmed on the Songalia River. Tigers are appeared in the film are trained by Sriracha  Tiger Zoo under The Thai Wild Animal Reservation and Protection Act, B.E. 2535 (1992). The film was criticized "as a state-race blur and the complexity of religion".