''Ka Kee'' ( th, กากี) or ''Unfaithful '' is a
1980
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Thai fantasy film based on the classical versified in ''
Kaki Klon Suphap'' ( th, กากีกลอนสุภาพ) written by Thai classical poet
Chao Phraya Phrakhlong (Hon) ( th, เจ้าพระยาพระคลัง (หน)) (c. 1740s - 1805), part of
Thai folklore
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. The film was directed by
Nerramitr and became one of the most famous
Thai fantasy films
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of the year. A
fotonovela
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based on scenes of the movie was also printed.
Other Thai movies with the same title but not based on the classical poem were released in 2003 and 2012.
Ka Ki 2012
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Plot
Garuda
Garuda ( Sanskrit: ; Pāli: ; Vedic Sanskrit: गरुळ Garuḷa) is a Hindu demigod and divine creature mentioned in the Hindu, Buddhist and Jain faiths. He is primarily depicted as the mount (''vahana'') of the Hindu god Vishnu. Garu ...
came down from his celestial residence to gamble with an ancient king in a dice game
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The following are games which largely, if not entirely, depend on dice:
Collectible dice games
Patterned after the su ...
. Garuda saw the beautiful Ka Kee, the king's wife, and kidnapped her. The king's musician helped her to escape by also seducing her. The king took offence at Ka Kee's unfaithfulness, for she had slept with three men. He punished her by banishing her to a raft
A raft is any flat structure for support or transportation over water. It is usually of basic design, characterized by the absence of a hull. Rafts are usually kept afloat by using any combination of buoyant materials such as wood, sealed barrels ...
that floated to the middle of the ocean, sure that she would not survive her ordeal.
The raft drifted until it arrived at an island while Ka Kee was unconscious, tired and hungry. A group of thieves saw her and their chieftain wanted her for his wife, but Ka Kee awakened and escaped from them. Meanwhile. the soldiers of the island's king battled the thieves and set out to take Ka Kee home, but she refused because she acknowledged her sins and accepted her punishment. The new king was the former king's musician who had slept with Ka Kee. He declared his love openly to her. Ka Kee finally relented, went with the king, and they lived happily together ever after.
See also
*Thai literature
300px, ''Samut Thai'', a traditional medium for recordation and transmission of Thai and other literature in mainland Southeast Asia
Thai literature is the literature of the Thai people, almost exclusively written in the Thai language (althoug ...
*Cambodian literature
Cambodian literature ( km, អក្សរសាស្ត្រខ្មែរ, ), also Khmer literature, has a very ancient origin. Like most Southeast Asian national literatures its traditional corpus has two distinct aspects or levels:
*The ...
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