''Legend of Sudsakorn'' ( th, สุดสาคร) is a 2006

Thai Thai or THAI may refer to: * Of or from Thailand, a country in Southeast Asia ** Thai people, the dominant ethnic group of Thailand ** Thai language, a Tai-Kadai language spoken mainly in and around Thailand *** Thai script *** Thai (Unicode block ...

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. It is based on a story from ''

Phra Aphai Mani Phra Aphai Mani is a 48,700-line Epic poetry, epic poem composed by Thai poet Sunthorn Phu ( th, สุนทรภู่), who is known as "the Bard of Rattanakosin" ( th, กวีเอกแห่งกรุงรัตนโกสินท ...

'', an epic poem by

Sunthorn Phu Phra Sunthorn Vohara (Phu) ( th, พระสุนทรโวหาร (ภู่), , ; 26 June 1786 – 1855), known as Sunthorn Phu ( th, สุนทรภู่, , ), is Thailand's best-known royal poet. He wrote during the Rattanakosin pe ...

Charlie Trairat Charlie Trairat Potjes ( th, ชาลี ไตรรัตน์ ปอทเจส; born January 19, 1993) also known as Nak, is a Thai actor and singer. He gained stardom through ''Fan Chan'', which was Thailand's highest-grossing film in 2 ...

, the young male lead from ''

Fan Chan ''Fan Chan'' ( Thai: แฟนฉัน, English: ''My Girl'') is a 2003 Thai coming-of-age romantic film offering a nostalgic look back at the childhood friendship of a boy and girl growing up in a small town in Thailand in the 1980s. It was th ...

'', portrays the title character, a boy who is the son of a

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who is sent on a magical quest to find his father, a prince. It is a mix of live action and

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. The story was previously adapted in the 1979 Thai

animated Animation is a method by which still figures are manipulated to appear as moving images. In traditional animation, images are drawn or painted by hand on transparent celluloid sheets to be photographed and exhibited on film. Today, most anim ...

feature, ''

The Adventure of Sudsakorn ''The Adventure of Sudsakorn'' ( th, สุดสาคร, also ''The Adventure of Sud Sakorn'', ''Sudsakhorn Adventure'', or ''Soodsakorn'') is a 1979 Thai animated fantasy film. The only cel-animated feature film ever made in Thailand, it was ...

''.

Cast

* Charlie Trairat as

Sudsakorn Sudsakorn ( th, สุดสาคร, , ) is a fictional character in Sunthorn Phu's story ''Phra Aphai Mani'', written in Thailand during the Rattanakosin period. Sudsakorn, the son of Phra Aphaimani and a mermaid, was born at Ko Kaeo Phitsadan ...

* Suchao Pongwilai as Prachao Ta * Pemanee Sungkorn as Sudsakorn's mother * Surachai Sangarkart as Prince Aphai Mani

External links

Official site
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