Kung Fu Tootsie (Thai: ตั๊ดสู้ฟุด or Tat soo foot) is a 2007 Thai action comedy film written and directed by Jaturong Mokjok. The film won the Best Costumes Award at the Suphannahong National Film Awards.
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Title
The English title of the film is an allusion to the 1982 American comedy film Tootsie. A Thai slang term for transvestite or effeminate man, toot (ตุ๊ด), comes from the first syllable of Tootsie. The Thai name of the film, Tat soo foot is a Thai spoonerism for toot soo fat, which translates roughly as "butt-kicking sissy" and carries explicit gay overtones.
Plot
Kung Fu Tootsie is set in Hong Kong, the story of Tien and Tao, twins separated at birth. When Tao, living with his wealthy mafioso father, Ma Yong Hai, is mutilated by a rival gang, Ma must find his lost son Tien, living in poverty with his mother, to become the next head of the family.
Antics ensue, however, when Tien turns out to be more 'Sonny and Cher' than 'Sonny Corleone'.
Cast
Sittichai Pabchompoo (Boy) as Tien
Koti Arambawy as Kaytree
Jim Chuancheun as Mha-yonghai
Erik Markus Schuetz as Mr. Jonas
Jaturong Mokjok as Foey
Kreangsak Riantong as Sienpau
Pokchat Thiamchai as Poey-Poey
Note Chern-Yim
Tanai Sripinyo
Accolades
The film received the Suphannahong National Film Award for the Best costumes.
Reception
The film was described as entertaining and visually appealing. It was a considerable commercial success in Thailand.