Headshot (2011)

• IMDb page: Headshot (2011)


• Rate: 6.3/10 total 443 votes 


• Genre: Crime | Drama | Thriller


• Release Date: 28 September 2012 (USA)


• Runtime: Canada:105 min (Toronto International Film Festival)


• Director: Pen-Ek Ratanaruang


• Stars: Nopachai Chaiyanam, Sirin Horwang and Chanokporn Sayoungkul|See full cast and crew


• Original Music By: Vichaya Vatanasapt   


• Sound Mix: Dolby Digital


• Plot Keyword: Hitman | Handgun | Factory | Assassination | Lights Out

Writing Credits By:

(in alphabetical order)



• Win Lyovarin  novel


• Pen-Ek Ratanaruang  screenplay

Known Trivia

Plot: A cop who becomes a hitman for a group aimed at eliminating those who are above the law finds his world turned upside down by a single a devastating blow. Full summary »  »




Story: This Thai crime noir tells the story of Tul, a hitman who wakes up from a coma to realize that he's now seeing everything upside down. Tul wants to quit but in instead recruited to join a secret organization that gets ride of crooked politicians untouched by the law.Written by CJ  




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Synopsis: Note: Off of the TIFF website




Tul, a hitman, is shot in the head during an assignment. He wakes up after a three-month coma to find that he sees everything upside down, literally. Then he meets a girl that turns his world even more upside down. Who was trying to kill him in the first place?Tags




South East Asian | Thriller | CrimeProgrammer’s Note




Tul (Nopachai Jayanama) is about to see his world turned upside down. When we first meet him, hes been sent a package of photos and data, which he examines and then promptly puts through the shredder. He shaves his head, dons a monks robes, and walks onto the gated estate belonging to the man in the photos. Tul then takes a pistol and fires a bullet into the mans neck. More shots are fired, one of them hitting Tul in the head. Everything turns black. When Tul wakes up three months later, all that he sees is inverted. Is it some bizarre brain injury, or some form of karmic retribution? In the disorienting world of Headshot, such questions linger, and draw us closer to its violence and mystery.




Based on Win Lyovarins novel Rain Falling Up the Sky, Pen-ek Ratanaruangs Headshot is a noirish thriller about the corruption that infects both contemporary Bangkok and the human spirit. Over the course of the films chronologically complex narrative, we come to learn about the extraordinary events that transformed Tul from a straight-laced detective into an assassin working for a group seeking to eliminate all those who deem themselves above the law. Those events involve an unspeakably gorgeous young stranger (who informs Tul right off that she likes cops), a bloodied corpse in a tub, a drug bust, an attempted bribe and a book about mans inherently evil nature, something Tul initially finds curious but gradually begins to feel might be all too true.




Working with his regular cinematographer, Chankit Chamnivikaipong, Pen-ek evokes Tuls journey into the underworld in unusually muted and dusky tones. Vichaya Vatanasapts music gives us a sense of perpetually downward movement. And in Jayanama, with whom the director has now worked twice, Headshot finds its perplexed soul, always struggling to make the closest thing to a moral choice in a deeply immoral world.




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Produced By:


• Emilie Georges known as associate producer


• Tanja Meissner known as associate producer


• Raymond Phathanavirangoon known as producer


• Pawas Sawatchaiyamet known as producer



FullCast & Crew:


• Nopachai Chaiyanam known as Tul (as Nopporn Chaiyanam)


• Sirin Horwang known as Rin


• Chanokporn Sayoungkul known as Joy / Tiwa


• Apisit Opasaimlikit known as Torpong


• Kiat Punpiputt known as Dr. Suang (as Krerkkiat Punpiputt)



• Theeradanai Suwannahom known as Tin



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• Phatthira Phuthisuraset known as makeup department head


• Kent Richard known as additional hair stylist



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Production Companies:


• Local Color Films


• Office of the Contemporary Art and Culture (OCAC)



Other Companies:


• Southern Costume Company  costumes and wardrobe



Distributors:


• Kino Lorber (2012) (USA) (theatrical) (subtitled)


• Against Gravity (2012) (Poland) (all media)


• MVD (2012) (Thailand) (DVD)


• Madman Entertainment (2012) (Australia) (DVD)



..{tab=Other Stuff}Release Date:


• Canada 11 September 2011 (Toronto International Film Festival)


• Canada 2 October 2011 (Vancouver International Film Festival)


• Japan 24 October 2011 (Tokyo International Film Festival)


• Germany 11 February 2012 (Berlin International Film Festival)


• France 10 March 2012 (Deauville Asian Film Festival)


• France 1 April 2012 (Beaune Film Festival)


• Hong Kong 1 April 2012 (Hong Kong International Film Festival)


• Taiwan 3 July 2012 (Taipei Film Festival)


• Singapore 23 September 2012 (Buddhist Film Festival)


• USA 28 September 2012


• France 31 October 2012


• Norway 2 November 2012



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Headshot (2011)