Phra Rod Meree

For the story, see Phra Rot Meri.
Phra Rod Meree

Thai theatrical poster
Directed by Sompote Sands
Starring Dam Datsakorn
Toon Hiransap
Supansa Nuengpirom
Ampha Pusit
Duangcheewan Komolsen
Release dates
 April 11, 1981
Running time
 120 min
Country Thailand
Language Thai

Phra Rod Meree (Thai: พระรถเมรี) is a 1981 Thai fantasy film. Directed by Sompote Sands,[1] it is one of the most successful Thai feature films ever made in Thailand.[2]

The story is based on The Twelve Sisters, a Thai folklore myth that originated in one of the Jataka tales.[3] This same story was also adapted into a Thai fantasy lakhon.[4]

Plot

Twelve girls are abandoned by their parents because they are too poor to take care of them. The twelve daughters are rescued by an ogress (yaksha) in disguise who promises to take care about them as her own daughters.

Phra Rodasan (Phra Rod), the only surviving son of the twelve sisters, goes on a quest to the ogre kingdom in order to heal his mother and his aunts' blindness. There he falls in love with the ogress' daughter, Meree.[5]

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