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6ixtynin9

- How far would you go to protect a secret?

A woman, fired from a financial corporation during the Asia crisis, returns home with no money. However, she finds a box with a fortune in front of her door, and decides to keep it. However, the people that left it there soon want it back.

Release Date : 1999-10-20

Language :Thai

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Five Star ProductionThe Film Factory

Production Country : Thailand

Alternative Titles : The Black Box

Cast

Character Name : Tum

Original Name : Lalita Panyopas

Gender : Female

Character Name : Kanchit

Original Name : Black Phomtong

Gender : Male

Character Name : Suwat

Original Name : Arun Wannarbodeewong

Gender : Male

Character Name : Jim

Original Name : Tasanawalai Ongartittichai

Gender : Female

Character Name : Pen

Original Name : Sirisin Siripornsmathikul

Gender : Male

Character Name : Uncle Yen

Original Name : จรัล เพ็ชรเจริญ

Gender : Male

Character Name : Tas

Original Name : Wiwat Thongprasertsom

Gender : Male

Character Name : Young Policeman

Original Name : Surapol Mekpongsatorn

Gender : Male

Character Name : Sum-ang

Original Name : Krisada Banjongkaew

Gender : Male

Character Name : Supap

Original Name : พนม พรมชาติ

Gender : Male

Character Name : Wiroj

Original Name : Likhit Thongnak

Gender : Male

Character Name : Noi

Original Name : Atthakorn Suwannaraj

Gender : Male

Character Name : Berm

Original Name : Wasan Petchnil

Gender : Male

Character Name : Cashier

Original Name : Wichai Jongprasitporn

Gender : Male

Character Name : Sompan

Original Name : Nattha Wattanapaiboon

Gender : Male

Character Name : Subin

Original Name : Thiti Micheli

Gender : Male

Character Name : Sornchak

Original Name : เชษฐวุฒิ วัชรคุณ

Gender : Female

Character Name : Pornsri

Original Name : Yupin Sathes

Gender : Male

Character Name : Saisamorn

Original Name : Kornkanok Naree

Gender : Male

Character Name : Tor

Original Name : Sira Kingmali

Gender : Male

Character Name : Shop Owner

Original Name : Prompop Leelapan

Gender : Male

Character Name : Police Officer

Original Name : Somjet Thongpreecha

Gender : Male

Character Name : Convict

Original Name : Pradthana Chonsawat

Gender : Male

Character Name : Complainant

Original Name : Kamonwan Naksewa

Gender : Male

Character Name : Motorcycle Rider

Original Name : Tinnakorn Nukool

Gender : Male

Character Name : Hainanese Chicken Rice Merchant

Original Name : Jessada Klinsuwan

Gender : Male

Character Name : Chess Player

Original Name : Jarimith Nuchprapa

Gender : Male

Character Name : Tickets Seller

Original Name : Wititanan Rojanapanit

Gender : Male

Character Name : Office Worker 1

Original Name : Piyanard Sitthiku

Gender : Male

Character Name : Office Worker 2

Original Name : Sompetch Nunthasinchai

Gender : Male

Character Name : Office Worker 3

Original Name : Sujitra Benjathikul

Gender : Male

Character Name : Office Worker 4

Original Name : Wirada Treehiran

Gender : Male

Character Name : Office Worker 5

Original Name : Ananya Wongsrisornsak

Gender : Male

Character Name : Office Worker 6

Original Name : Patthamaporn Ngaokhukhan

Gender : Male

Character Name : Office Worker 7

Original Name : Kanokwan Numkorn

Gender : Male

Reviews

John Chard

@John Chard

2024-05-16

A funny story about 6 and 9. 6ixtynin9 (Ruang talok 69) is without doubt a film of acquired tastes, a pic that's hard to recommend with any great confidence. That is, though, unless you have a kink for violent black comedy crime movies, where the narrative drive is quirky and fulsome, even winsome in some regards. Story finds Lalita Panyopas (excellent) as Tum, a lady who has just been laid off from work courtesy of lots being drawn. Feeling desperate and at the end of her tether, she's amazed to find on her doorstep a noodle box with $25,000 in it. A gift from the gods? Not quite! And once some shifty gangster types come knocking at her door, nothing will ever be the same again... There's a whole ream of films this draws from, but favourably so, especially since the films often referenced in reviews are pretty tasty in themselves. Yet this is no hack job, director and writer Pen-Ek Ratanaruang has crafted a splendid pot of Thai neo-noir curry, putting his own stamp on things, imbuing the pic with his own flourishes, such as showing acts of violence off screen! Via a shadow, a splatter of blood, or a pair of legs going limp. The characters who inhabit this world are gloriously strange or purely deranged. The henchmen are from a Thai boxing club, garishly attired in bright red clobber (film is packed with pronounced reds), one of them is even deaf, while their boss is a bit off the map, likes to have one of his charges massage him with is feet. There's a phone sex pest, who ends up being a real key component to how things pan out, and one of the baddies reveals tears and a most bizarre death in the family! It's all deliciously off kilter, even as the bodies pile up, the black comedy tongue is prodding away at the inside of the cheek. But ultimately its noir heart is with the vagary of fate and of the coincidences that pitch our everyday woman (she's no moll or assassin type) into a bloody and bonkers world. All of which has hinged, ironically, on a number badly screwed to an apartment door! 8/10