Hanuman: The White Monkey Warrior
Posted by Enjoy Thai MoviesOct 30
Title: Hanuman: The White Monkey Warrior (hanuman klook phun)
Release Date in Thailand: 12th August 2008
Director: Sakchai Sriboonnak
In the ancient time before Land of Siam was born, there was the time when armies of invaders came to colonize the land and were mercilessly massacring population. One priest secretly gathered drawings of many animals from all over the world. He bonded the drawings in to a book with great supernatural powers. Then he gave the book to two headman of one Thai tribe to use these drawings to tattoo on his people and fight the invaders. When the land is rid of vandals and peace returns, the sacred book must be divided into many segments and passed on to the most trusted disciples to guard and preserve it. All segments of the sacred book must never fall in to hands of those who seek absolute power.
The time passed and ages went by, the sacred book once again emerged into the hands of rivals. All stories confirm that they were invincible because they were protected by tattoos with supernatural powers. When the segments of the sacred book once again collide, the blood battle of the supernatural animals begins.
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9 comments
Comment by vithaya (tha) on July 19, 2008 at 12:17 pm
im so glad i stumble over this websie hahahaha thx u very much (^_^)
Comment by Valmor on August 13, 2008 at 6:26 am
Anybody know where I can whatch this movie for free and with english subtiles?
Comment by Suthee \"Phong\" Buayam on August 18, 2008 at 2:48 pm
The movie is now being show in cinemas in Bangkok and across the country. You need to check with your local cinema to see if they are showing it with subtitles in English.
This movie had a lot of potential in dealing with the subject of tattoos that come alive to protect the wearer. There are festivals at temples where these are recharged. Tiger tattoos turn the humans into tigers. Monkey tattoos turn them into monkeys etc.
“Hanuman: The White Monkey Warrior” has to be the most boring Thai movie of the year. Bad acting, script writing and direction let this movie down a lot. In addition, the foreigners they found to act in this movie couldn’t act at all. They just spent the whole time swearing in English and Thai. All they can do is fight. This is what happens when you use stunt man as actors.
This movie seems to reflect the growing spread of foreign gangsters in Thailand. It seems to be more common now to have farang gangsters (or gringos as they are called in the subtitles) instead of Thai gangsters. This means that they can do more damage which is shocking. Like desecrate shrines, burning orphan children alive and kidnapping a crippled girl. Like Asian gangsters in Hollywood movies, we now have farangs depicted as monsters in Thai movies.
Thai children are now being taught to be good or the farang will come and eat them. I am not kidding. A Thai mother told her kid sitting across from me in a songtaew that if he didn’t stop crying then she would give him to the farang. Movies like this will just help continue this trend of racial division in the country.
Comment by Jingthing on August 19, 2008 at 3:07 am
This movie is VIRULENTLY RACIST against farangs in Thailand. The filmmakers have gone way too far with this one. To discuss this issue, check out
http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/Thai-Movie-hanuman-Virulently-R-t206659.html&p=2148169#entry2148169
Comment by ghost on October 20, 2008 at 5:27 am
Brutally Insulting to me, this is just UNACCEPTABLE and RACIST downright.
Has nothing to do with the ACTUAL Hanuman, yet they steal the name, I will never watch anything made by these directors/producers ever again.
Hanuman has NOTHING to do with Buddhists/Thai people, this is just plain wrong.
They are discredited
Comment by ghost on October 20, 2008 at 5:28 am
Brutally Insulting to me, this is just UNACCEPTABLE and RACIST downright.
Has nothing to do with the ACTUAL Hanuman, yet they steal the name, I will never watch anything made by these directors/producers ever again.
Hanuman has NOTHING to do with Buddhists/Thai people, this is just plain wrong.
They are discredited
Comment by cochrane on July 16, 2009 at 2:10 am
Truly, this movie is complete trash. It tries to be too many things at once (drama, martial-arts, comedy, fantasy) and ultimately achieves nothing.
Comment by captinwonder on October 5, 2009 at 2:46 am
You could try downloading from bt junkie.
Comment by Brit1 on May 15, 2010 at 3:31 am
I am from England and I have go to say from an outsiders point of view, this is an absolutely racist film. I am all for liberal mindedness, but westerners snapping, disabled peoples and childrens backs, as westerners are monsters. Plus other obvious racist perceptions. It’s disgusting to portray any race of any country to this extreme. These type of films spread unneccessary hatred.