Invisible Waves
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- Hiromi Aihara
- Faruk Alatan
- Wouter Barendrecht
- Winnie Lau
- Miky Lee
- Mingmongkol Sonakul
- Michael J. Werner
- Daniel Yu Wai-Kwok
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| Directed by | Pen-Ek Ratanaruang |
| Written by | Prabda Yoon |
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| Cinematography | Christopher Doyle |
| Edited by | Patamanadda Yukol |
| Music by | Hualampong Riddim |
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Running time | 115 min. |
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Invisible Waves (Thai: คำพิพากษาของมหาสมุทร) is a 2006 crime film by Thai director Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, with screenplay by Prabda Yoon, cinematography by Christopher Doyle, and starring Tadanobu Asano – all people that Pen-Ek had worked with on his previous film, Last Life in the Universe. It had its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival and was also shown at the 2006 Bangkok International Film Festival and the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival.[1]
Kyoji is a cook living in Macau. He works for a Thai restaurant in Hong Kong and has been having an affair with Seiko, the wife of his boss, Wiwat, who orders Kyoji to poison her. After the deed is done, Kyoji is ordered to leave Hong Kong. He consults with the mysterious Monk, who gives him money and advice to contact Lizard. Kyoji then boards a cruise ship, and is given a small, dreary cabin belowdecks, where nothing seems to work properly. In trying to find his way back topside, he gets lost. Finally, up on deck, he meets Noi. Noi has a baby named Nid, whom Kyoji finds hanging on the deck rail in a harness, where Noi left the child while she was swimming. Eventually, the ship reaches its destination, Phuket, Thailand, where real life-or-death adventures begin for Kyoji as he starts to put the pieces together about what he's done.
Cast
- Tadanobu Asano as Kyoji
- Maria Cordero as Maria
- Toon Hiranyasap as Wiwat
- Kang Hye-jung as Noi
- Ken Mitsuishi as Lizard
- Eric Tsang as Monk
- Tomono Kuga as Seiko