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Wow. That is crazy. The battle scene looks like it's from some demented video game.

The drawings often really are quite good.  These guys didn't understand basic animation principles, though, so it looks a lot worse in motion than it should. It's a shame that there was no follow-up (no other animation was made for decades after); they would surely have gotten better if given a chance.

Ah, Youtube, what DON'T you have?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrKa2XFUKHo

So there's a version of this film with very bad video and sound quality (and no subtitles). My first impression: some of the drawings are very good, but they mostly don't move well as animation. Also, the film would probably look better if the colours weren't so dull (this seems to have been taped from TV then transferred from videotape).

The film was sponsored by a local studio which already shut down many years ago. The owners already died and the film's right pretty much got passed on to their son. The original film was donated to the National Film Archive in my country and they usually show it in various international film festivals around the world.

Hi Sonni... how do you know this information? I'd appreciate it if you could tell me (or join the discussion over at wikipedia).  See, me and another editor have been trying to write an entry about this film, but information about it is very hard to find.  Any help by someone who speaks Thai would be very appreciated.

It's too bad that no DVD has been released.  Is the film ever shown on television? Apparently it still has some cultural influence over in Thailand, because there seem to be comic books that are clearly inspired by the art style.  So it's not entirely forgotten.