CHA CHA CHINATOWN: Check Out The Trailer Footage For Jaturong Phonboon’s New Thai Action Comedy
Thai actress Ranchrawee “Mint” Uakoolwarawat started her career about six years ago in television dramas and made her feature appearance in Tatchapong Supasri’s 2020 romance drama, Classic Again. Her latest role finds our heroine deep in the trenches as he battles her way out of an unlucky streak in Jaturong Phonboon’s latest action comedy, Chinatown Cha Cha, currently making the rounds in Thai theaters and exhibitors throughout Laos and Cambodia.
Kie, a desperate young girl and her family is facing so many tragedies in life.
So, she turns to the spiritual and goes to pray at a shrine. A priest says that her family is facing a karma caused by her gangster (An Yi) ancestor.
Kie decides to perform a spiritual ritual, then finds herself back to the past in a man body, who is killed and now is back from his death because she takes his body. Kie meets with all the gang members including her own great grandfather, Khoong. Kie stays with Khoong and finds out so many things about him, and many incidents happen showing her other perspectives in her great grandfather’s life.
One day the police come to forces and fight with all the gangs. While her great grandfather is about to kill Caption John, Kie throws herself in front of Captain John. She tells Khoong not to kill Captain John because this may help changing their family fortune.
Kie is woke up by her father and finds out that her life is still the same. Only her great grandfather words remain to bring hope and keep her to look for the brighter side of her future.
Produced by Phatchuda Phanphiphat, Cha Cha Chinatown also stars Teeradetch Metawarayut, Chutavuth Pattarakampol, Nopdol Songsaeng, Chukiat Eiamsook and Katchathathep Iamsiri. Vela Entertainment is representing the film internationally while we wait and see what happens with this film in the procession of sales news from the markets. In the meantime, the teaser premiered late last year and I’ve included both official trailers just beneath. It’s the usual family-friendly slapstick variety of Thai action spectacle representative of the less risque action of Thai cinema a decade ago, but that’s less so the tone here given the narrative and it definitely has an audience. Take a look!
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