Invisible Waves

Invisible Waves

Infobox Film
name = Invisible Waves


caption = Film poster.
director = Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
producer = Hiromi Aihara
Faruk Alatan
Wouter Barendrecht
Winnie Lau
Miky Lee
Mingmonkul Sonakul
Michael J. Werner
Daniel Yu Wai-Kwok
writer = Prabda Yoon
narrator =
starring = Tadanobu Asano
Toon Hiranyasap
Kang Hye-jeong
Ken Mitsuishi
Eric Tsang
Maria Cordero
music = Hualampong Riddim
cinematography = Christopher Doyle
editing = Patamanadda Yukol
distributor = Five Star Production
Fortissimo Films
Palm Pictures
released = flagicon|Germany February 14, 2006
flagicon|Thailand February 17, 2006
flagicon|Hong Kong April 13, 2006
flagicon|Singapore April 20, 2006
flagicon|Canada September 14, 2006
flagicon|United States February 19, 2007
flagicon|Turkey July 20,2007
runtime = 115 min.
country = Thailand
South Korea
Hong Kong
language = English, Japanese, Thai, Cantonese
budget =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
website = http://www.invisiblewaves.com/
amg_id = 1:341829
imdb_id = 0461970

"Invisible Waves" ( _th. คำพิพากษาของมหาสมุทร) is a 2006 crime film by Thai director Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, with screenplay by Prabda Yoon, cinematography by Christopher Doyle, and starring Tadanobu Asano – all people that Pen-Ek had worked with on his previous film, "Last Life in the Universe". It had its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival and was also shown at the 2006 Bangkok International Film Festival and the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival. [News release, 2006. [http://www.e.bell.ca/filmfest/2006/media_centre/news_releaseItem.asp?id=190 TIFF Announces Best of International Film Festival Circuit] , Toronto International Film Festival (retrieved August 18, 2006).]

Plot

Kyoji is a cook living in Macau. He works for a Thai restaurant in Hong Kong and has been having an affair with Seiko, the wife of his boss, Wiwat, who orders Kyoji to poison her. After the deed is done, Kyoji is ordered to leave Hong Kong. He consults with the mysterious Monk, who gives him money and advice to contact Lizard. Kyoji then boards a cruise ship, and is given a small, dreary cabin belowdecks, where nothing seems to work properly. In trying to find his way back topside, he gets lost. Finally, up on deck, he meets Noi. Noi has a baby named Nid, whom Kyoji finds hanging on the deck rail in a harness, where Noi left the child while she was swimming. Eventually, the ship reaches its destination, Phuket, Thailand, where real life-or-death adventures begin for Kyoji as he starts to put the pieces together about what he's done.

Cast

*Tadanobu Asano as Kyoji
*Maria Cordero as Maria
*Toon Hiranyasap as Wiwat
*Kang Hye-jeong as Noi
*Ken Mitsuishi as Lizard
*Eric Tsang as Monk
*Tomono Kuga as Seiko

Awards and nominations

* 2006 Berlin International Film Festival – world premiere, nominated for Golden Bear.
* 2006 Bangkok International Film Festival – in competition and opening film.

Oscar controversy

"Invisible Waves" had been announced as Thailand's entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the 79th Academy Awards by the Federation of National Film Associations of Thailand, but was then withdrawn and replaced with "Ahimsa ... Stop to Run", which upset the "Invisible Waves" production company, Five Star Production. The film federation said that the reason for the change was that a print of the film wouldn't be available in time to send to the Academy for consideration, but Five Star, sales agent Fortissimo Films and distributor Palm Pictures stated that was not true. Earlier, the federation had opposed the film's opening of the 2006 Bangkok International Film Festival, stating that since it was an international co-production it was not truly a Thai film. [http://www.kaijushakedown.com/2006/10/thailand_madnes.html Thailand madness is back!] , Kaiju Shakedown (December 28, 2006).] Soop Sip. October 4, 2006. "Oscar hopeful to open film fest", The Nation, Page 12A (print edition).]

References

External links

* [http://www.invisiblewaves.com/ Official site]
*imdb title|id=0461970|title=Invisible Waves
*amg movie|id=1:341829|title=Invisible Waves
*rotten-tomatoes|id=invisible_waves|title=Invisible Waves
*" [http://www.mrqe.com/lookup?Invisible+Waves&pane=1 Invisible Waves] at the Movie Review Query Engine


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