ʻAʻole paha ʻo ke kinima Thai ka mea i kaulana loa ma ka honua, akā ke kaulana nei ʻo Thailand ma ke ʻano he ʻāina kahi e hana ʻoniʻoni ai. Loaʻa iā ia nā wahi he nui, ʻano ʻokoʻa loa, kahi ākea o nā hale noho, nā lumi lumi i lako pono, nā luina ʻike a paʻakikī hoʻi, kahi moʻomeheu hoʻokipa, kahi hana hoʻomalu i hoʻomaʻamaʻa ʻia a hōʻike i ka waiwai maikaʻi loa no ke kālā. ʻAʻole he mea kupanaha e neenee nei nā mea hana kiʻi ʻoniʻoni mai nā wahi o ka honua i ka mea kupaianaha ʻo Thailand ma ke ʻano he hoʻokahi o nā wahi e hana i nā kiʻi ʻoniʻoni.
ʻOia nā kiʻi ʻoniʻoni nui i kī ʻia i Thailand ma kahi o ʻehā mau makahiki. Hoʻokomo pū lākou iā Tarzan i ka makahiki 1962, The Man with the Golden Gun (ʻeiwa o ka James Bond series) i ka makahiki 1974, a me Oscar-the Killing Fields i ka makahiki 1984. I ka hopena, ua hoʻomākaukau ka ʻāina iā ia iho no nā hana hou aku mai nā ʻāpana like ʻole. o ka honua, ʻo Bollywood hoʻi i kapa ʻia ʻo India.
I nā huahana he nui, hana maikaʻi ʻo Thailand nā hana ʻoihana kiʻi maikaʻi no ka pālua ʻana no kahi ʻē aʻe. ʻO nā laʻana hou me Burma ma Sylvester Stallone's Rambo 4, Kina ma John Cusack's Shanghai a me Hong Kong a me Venice ma Michael Clark's Street Fighter. Ua ukali kēia mau mea i ka wāwae o kekahi mau hana nui ʻē aʻe, e like me ʻO Oliver Stone ʻo Alexander, Ma waho o nā palena me Angelina Jolie a puni ka Honua i 80 mau lā me Jackie Chan.
ʻO wai ʻo wai ma ka hale kiʻi ʻoniʻoni i hana i nā kiʻi ʻoniʻoni ma Thailand - Brian De Palma, Michael J. Fox, Sean Penn, Mel Gibson, Nicholas Cage, Hugh Grant, Renée Zellweger, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Amitabh Bachchan, Chow Yun-Fat , Michelle Yeoh, Leonardo DiCaprio, Colin Farrell, Roger Moore, Denzil Washington, Sylvester Stallone lāua ʻo Chuck Norris - e inoa wale nō.
ʻO ka Bangkok International Film Festival, i kēia makahiki i ke ono o kona makahiki a no ka mālama hou ʻia ʻana i ka pule hope o Kepakemapa, ua kōkua i ka hōʻike ʻana i ka waiwai o ke aupuni i ke kaiāulu kiʻiʻoniʻoni.
I ka wā i hele aku ai nā hōkū o ka honua e like me Miranda Richardson a me nā mea lanakila Oscar, ʻo Michael Douglas lāua ʻo Jeremy Irons, ua mālama ʻia lākou i ka ʻike o nā kumuwaiwai hana kiʻi ʻoniʻoni nui a Thailand. Ua kōkua kēlā mau kipa ʻana e kiʻi i ka ʻōlelo a kau paʻa iā Thailand ma ka palapala honua cinematic o ka honua.
A ʻo kahi hopena, ua pōmaikaʻi ʻo Thailand mai ka hoʻonui ʻana o nā hana laulima. Ua hana ʻo cinematographer Australia kaulana kaulana ma ka honua ʻo Chris Doyle i ʻelua mau kiʻi ʻoniʻoni Thai me ka luna kūloko ʻo Pen-Ek Rattanaruang. Hoʻonohonoho ʻia ka hale hoʻokani Pelekane ʻo Luc Besson's EuropaCorp i kākoʻo ʻia ka luna Thai talena ʻo Wisit Sasanatieng. Koho ka mea hana kiʻi ʻoniʻoni ʻo Hong Kong Wong Kar-wai e hoʻoponopono i kekahi o kāna mau kiʻi ʻoniʻoni ma nā keʻena ʻo Kantana Group's Bangkok.
Ua hele mai kahi mea nui Hollywood, alakaʻi ʻo Francis Ford Coppola, i Bangkok e hoʻoponopono iā Suriyothai no ka hoʻolaha honua. ʻO kēia moʻolelo epic, kupaianaha loa e pili ana i nā intriga intro i loko o Siam i hana ʻia e ka hoaaloha kahiko o Coppola, ka luna Thai kahiko ʻo Prince Chatrichalerm Yukol. I kēia makahiki, ua hoʻokū aʻe ke alakaʻi Thai kūʻokoʻa ʻo Apichatpong Weerasethakul i ka hale kiʻi ʻoniʻoni Thai i kahi pae hou loa i ka wā i kono ʻia ai i ke kiure nui ma ka Cannes Film Festival hanohano.
I ka makahiki i hala aku nei, ua hōʻike ʻia aia ma kahi o 523 mau wana (i hoʻopili ʻia me nā kiʻi ʻoniʻoni, nā pōkole a me nā nui o nā ʻoihana, nā wikiō mele a me nā ʻāpana no nā moʻo kīwī) i hana ʻia ma Thailand, e hoʻonui ana he 1,072 miliona baht i loaʻa kālā. I ka mahina ʻo Iune 2008, ua kī ʻia nā kiʻi ʻoniʻoni he 297 a me nā pōkole pōkole i ka mea i hiki ke lilo i makahiki hoʻopaʻa.
