A magic-realist romance that brings
together three of the most exciting talents in world cinema: director
Pen-ek Ratanaruang (Mon-rak Transistor, 6ixtyninn9),
Japanese superstar Asano Tadanobu, and Hong Kong-based cinematographer
Christopher Doyle (Days of Being Wild, Chungking Express, Hero
and Happy Together).

A succession of lush and intoxicating images and a host of eccentric
narrative tics from cutting edge Thai cinema converge to tell the
story of mysterious Kenji, a suicide-obsessed Japanese man living
in Bangkok. He accidentally kills a yakuza gang member who is after
his brother.

If only Nid, the beautiful Thai working girl Kenji spies between
the shelves one day, hadn't managed to die first. Kenji and Noi
hide out together and spend the most awkward 3 days hoping to find
love, life and redemption.

A quietly unsettling love story about people lost (and found) in
the margins of one another's identities — this is a funny,
tender and subtly devastating story about life and death, sisters
and brothers, sushi and som tam.......