The Old Monk

A man who has been living overseas for many years returns home to find his sister and widowed mother are making a living by taking in lodgers and murdering them.

One day, the beggar empire of Chao Pho Ngo is thrown into turmoil when the Tai Ko beggar gang attempts to overthrow his operation and murders one of his men. Chang, Chao Pho Ngo’s most skilled beggar, rallies the others to launch a decisive attack against the Tai Ko group— even if it means killing one another to the last.

In a Thai village childhood friends Kwen and Sompan are looking forward to make the world a better place within their ideology and beliefs. Kwen is a communist and Sompan is a monk. The film is a subtle metaphor for the troubled Thai political situation of the 1970's.

Raya grew up during the time when the Japanese forces were invading Thailand. Together with Captain Rome-run, a Thai army officer, Sae-ree Thai movement, the Thai freedom fighters, they interrupt the Japanese forces in every way they can. Raya also wants to get even with a local man, who co-operated with the Japanese and also had his father killed.

Teacher Tom and his hairdresser wife Reusi are living in a slum. They have a daughter. Tom is very dedicated to his job and study books every evening. His wife is bored and wishes to have a more exciting life. Following a friend invitation to a high society party, she goes alone as Tom believes it is not his world. There she meets a rich man and becomes her lover. She starts to go back home very late and doesn't go to her daughter's school activities. Following arguments between Tom and Reusi, they finally agree to divorce and Reusi announce to him that he is not the real father of their daughter! The slum is also full of robers and drug sellers. What a damned life...

Khun Nu was always a good girl at home, paying polite attention to her parents. But she change when she got involved with a group of young women at the university. They partied and lived a dissolute wild life. Khun Nu fell in love with flirtatious young man, got pregnant and started to drink heavily. Things got violent an she was abandoned.

Joon comes from a wealthy family, but he has never been himself, his parents dictate everything for him to do, even about his girlfriend. He leaves the house and lives on the street with homeless kids, earning his living by selling his drawings on the street. One of his old friend sees him, and then calls his parents to pick him up. They put him through a psychological treatment, but things are still the same at home when he comes out of the treatment, so he just runs away to live in the upcountry, away from his parents.

Fak, a young man once beloved by the villagers, lives with Somsong, a mentally unstable woman who became his father’s new wife. After his father’s death, Fak is left to care for Somsong, who is despised by the community. Over time, rumors spread that the two share an illicit relationship, causing Fak’s life to fall into ruin—solely due to the judgment passed by the villagers.

Tod is a war veteran who is always haunted by the images of the battle field. Tada brings him home after he has been treated in the hospital for a while. Tada’s boss takes her along on a business deal, and she sees her boss’s men being arrested for transporting heroin. Her boss and his men are coming to make her shut up, because she has seen and knows too much, but Tod sees the images of the enemy coming to attack him and Tada, so he kills them all.