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Actor — currently having a moment as one of the stars of Disney’s hit samurai series — has joined the cast of Thai director ‘s upcoming culinary thriller . The actor and director last collaborated two decades ago on the romantic crime film (2003), which was Thailand’s official submission to the
Oscars that year and won Asano the best actor award at the Venice Film Festival. Set in contemporary Bangkok, follows a talented young female chef named Sao who has a chance encounter with a man who sexually abused her when she was a teen. “Using her talents in the kitchen, Sao sets her plan of revenge in motion — achieving a rather unexpected result,” the film’s logline reads. The project’s producers are keeping the nature of Asano’s role under wraps for now, but they have revealed that newcomer Thanatphon Boonsang will play the central role of Sao, while Thai stars Nopachai Chaiyanam and Kris Srepoomseth will take two of the male leads. Nopachai previously starred in Pen-ek’s 2011 crime thriller , which premiered at the
Toronto Film Festival. is co-written by Pen-ek and Kongdej Jaturanrasamee ( , ). It’s Pen-ek’s first feature since his noir crime thriller in 2017. Veteran, -based cinematographer , best known for his collaborations with Wong Kar-wai, will lens the film. will be produced by Soros Sukhum of 185 Films (which recently produced Netflix’s Thai thriller Hunger) and Asia-based producer Conor Zorn, with Manuel Chiche from Joker Films and Alexandra Hoesdorff of Deal Productions co-producing. Goodfellas (formerly Wild Bunch) is handling international sales, aside from North America, which CAA is representing. The film is expected to go into production in April, with the filmmakers targeting a premiere at a major European festival next year. THR Newsletters Sign up for THR news straight to your inbox every day More from The
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