Thai cinema inogona kunge isiri iyo inonyanya kuzivikanwa pasirese, asi Thailand iri kuwana mukurumbira senyika yekugadzira mafirimu. Iine zvisingaverengeki, nzvimbo dzakasiyana-siyana, nzvimbo dzakasiyana-siyana dzekugara, masitudiyo akashongedzerwa zvakanaka, vashandi vane ruzivo uye vanoshanda nesimba, tsika inogamuchirwa, hurongwa hwekutonga hwakabatana uye hunomiririra kukosha kwakanyanya kwemari. Ndosaka zvisingashamise kuti vagadziri vemafirimu kubva kutenderera pasirese vari kuzeya muThailand inoshamisa seimwe yenzvimbo dzekugadzira mafirimu.
Mafirimu makuru ekunze akapfurwa muThailand kweanopfuura makumi mana emakore. Vanosanganisira Tarzan muna 1962, The Man with the Golden Gun (wechipfumbamwe muJames Bond series) muna 1974, uye Oscar-winning The Killing Fields muna 1984. Munguva pfupi yapfuura, nyika yanga ichizvigadzirira zvimwe zvigadzirwa kubva kumativi akasiyana. yenyika, kunyanya yeIndia yengano Bollywood.
Muzvigadzirwa zvakawanda, yakanakisa firimu yeThailand inoita kuti ive yakakodzera kupeta kune imwe nzvimbo. Mienzaniso ichangoburwa inosanganisira Burma muRambo 4 yaSylvester Stallone, China muShanghai yaJohn Cusack neHong Kong neVenice muMichael Clark's Street Fighter. Izvi zvakatevera mumatsimba ezvimwe zvakaitwa zvikuru, zvinosanganisira Oliver Stone's Alexander, Beyond Borders naAngelina Jolie uye Around the World in 80 Days naJackie Chan.
A realtic Who's Who in international cinema akaita mafirimu muThailand — 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 naChuck Norris - kungotaura zvishomanana.
Iyo Bangkok International Film Festival, yave mugore rechitanhatu uye ichaitwa zvakare muvhiki yekupedzisira yaGunyana, yakabatsira kuratidza hupfumi hwehumambo kunharaunda yemafirimu epasirese.
Pakapinda nyeredzi dzepasi rese dzakaita saMiranda Richardson uye vakahwina Oscar Michael Douglas naJeremy Irons, vakatariswa zviwanikwa zvekugadzira mafirimu zveThailand. Kushanya kwakadai kwakabatsira kuburitsa izwi uye kuisa Thailand zvakasimba pamepu yenyika yemabhaisikopo.
Nekuda kweizvozvo, Thailand yakabatsirwa nenhamba inowedzera yekudyidzana kwekugadzira. Mutambi ane mukurumbira pasi rose wekuAustralia Chris Doyle akaita mafirimu maviri echiThai nemutungamiriri wepano Pen-Ek Rattanaruang. Akapembererwa director weFrance Luc Besson's EuropaCorp yekugadzira imba yakatsigira ane tarenda Thai director Wisit Sasanatieng. Mugadziri wemufirimu wepamusoro kuHong Kong Wong Kar-wai asarudza kugadzirisa mamwe emafirimu ake kunzvimbo yeKantana Group's Bangkok.
Mukuru weHollywood, mutungamiriri Francis Ford Coppola, panguva iyi akauya kuBangkok kuzogadzirisa Suriyothai kuti igovere nyika dzese. Iyi epic, inoshamisa inoshamisira mutambo wezvipfeko pamusoro pematare edzimhosva muSiam yekare yakagadzirwa neshamwari yekare yaCoppola, murwi mukuru weThai director Prince Chatrichalerm Yukol. Gore rino, director akazvimirira weThai Apichatpong Weerasethakul akasimudza bhaisikopo reThai kusvika padanho idzva apo akakokwa kudare guru revatongi paCannes Film Festival ine mukurumbira.
Gore rapfuura, zvakashumwa kuti akawanda anosvika mazana mashanu nemakumi maviri nematatu mapfuti (anosanganisira mafirimu, zvikabudura uye nhamba huru yekushambadzira, mavhidhiyo emimhanzi uye episodhi epaterevhizheni) zvakaitika muThailand, zvichigadzira mari inofungidzirwa kuti 523 miriyoni baht. Pakazosvika Chikumi 1,072, huwandu hwe2008 mafirimu uye zvikabudura zvaive zvatopfurwa mune zvingaite rekodhi gore.
