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Beautiful Boxer
| Rating: | No Rating |
| Genre: | Drama |
| Release Date: | February 18, 2005 |
| Running time: | 113 minutes |
| Cast: | Asanee Suwan, Sorapong Chatree, Orn-Anong Panyawong, Kyoko Inoue, Sitiporn Niyom |
| Director: | Ekachai Uekrongtham |
| Producer: | Ekachai Uekrongtham |
| Writer: | Ekachai Uekrongtham, Desmond Sim Kim Jin |
| Distributor: | Regent Releasing |
Description: Based on the true story of Thailand's famed transgender kickboxer, Beautiful Boxer is a poignant action drama that punches straight into the heart and mind of a boy who fights like a man so he can become a woman. Believing he's a girl trapped in a boy's body since childhood, Parinya Charoenphol sets out to master the most masculine and lethal sport of Thai boxing to earn a living and to achieve his ultimate goal of total femininity. Touching, funny and packed with breathtaking Thai kickboxing sequences, Beautiful Boxer traces Nong Toom's childhood, teenage life as a traveling monk and grueling days in boxing camps.
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