Ma-Mha
2007 film
Ma-Mha (Thai: มะหมา 4 ขาครับ, or Ma-Mha 4 Ka Krub, also Mid-Road Gang) is a 2007 Thai comedy-drama film directed by Pantham Thongsang and Somkiet Vituranich about a pack of stray dogs in suburban Bangkok who want to cross a busy highway in hopes of finding a better life on the other side of the road. It is the first Thai live-action feature film to feature main characters that are animals.
Plot
Makham is a Thai Ridgeback living with his middle-class owner, the owner's girlfriend and her white Persian cat. After the cat tricks Makham into chewing on her owner's shoes, the girlfriend becomes furious. When her boyfriend is gone, she takes Makham to a suburban Bangkok Buddhist temple and abandons him.
Makham joins a pack of five stray dogs living in a burned-out neighborhood. An illustrated opening sequence shows the strays' lives and how their village was burned down. The pack is led by an old mixed breed hound named Luang Kaffee. The other dogs are mostly mixed breed as well, except for a poodle named Sexy. The dogs are starving.
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