Kong Som Eun
Also Known As: Kuan Shan-Yun, Kong Som Oeurn, Kon Samoeun, Kong Sam Oeun, Kong Som Eurn
Biography: Kong Som Eun was the preeminent Cambodian actor of the late 1960s and early 1970s. He starred in more than half of the films released every year from 1967 to 1975, a total of more than 120 films. It is believed he was killed after the Khmer Rouge took control of Cambodia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: Not available
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Beast
Overview: There were twin sisters who lived in the remote jungle in a tree house. One day, two ranger men walked by and saw them living. They climbed up the tree and saw the twin sisters. Sadly, One of the sisters was raped and killed by the two men, and the other was able to escape from the killer. She was running with a bloody body, and she fell and later was dragged by a man (Trank Der) to his home. The dead sister became a powerful ghost. She hates men; she threatens to kill all villagers, especially men. She protected her sister and warned her not to love men. The people in the town got confused because they have the same face and the living sister was accused of being a ghost who has killed many people in the village, again particularly men. She was arrested by the villagers and was to be executed. She was later released and ordered to leave her hometown. She now lives with a man (Kon Samoeun) who saved her life. She is happy with her new life, living with him without fear.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: km
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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Crocodile Man 2
Overview: Chompa Tong, the daughter of the king , is kidnapped by a shapeshifting crocodile and the young prince called Jak Jan, swims into the water to save her.
Genres: Fantasy Horror
Original Language: km
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Orn Euy Srey Orn
Overview: The film is a melodramatic love-triangle between Chea and Sou over a woman named Orn.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: km
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Sovannahong
Overview: Princess Keth Soriyong is the daughter of a giant king. Sovannahong first sees the princess as an apparition in a rose. He becomes so love-sick that he convinces a fortune teller to turn him into a magical golden swan that takes him to the kingdom of Soriyong
Genres: Fantasy Romance
Original Language: km
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Sangkum Banh Loloke
Overview: Based on the "dove hunters" fairy tale
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: km
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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Tep Sodachan
Overview: The goddess Tep Sodachan falls in love with the peasant Vesna. Their love is threatened by a landlord and later, the king of the sky.
Genres: Fantasy Romance
Original Language: km
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Twilight
Overview: An ailing Khmer prince falls in love with Maharani Maya of India, his guest. The government of Cambodia sent him a trained nurse named Sopheap, who served him with devotion. But the prince was totally unaware of the rumblings in her heart.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: km
Release Date: 1969-04-01
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The Snake Girl
Overview: Big Madam poisons her husband and throws her adopted sister into a snake pit where she has sex with the snakes and gives birth to the beautiful Snake Girl. When her son falls in love with Snake Girl, Big Madam tries to kill her.
Genres: Horror Fantasy
Original Language: km
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Puthisen and Lady Kong Rey
Overview: Twelve sisters who escaped at the start of their human-eating mother, are marry at the same time the king. But the ogress craves revenge and deceives the king as an attractive woman. The ogress ensures that the twelve sisters lose their eyesight and are imprisoned in a cave. Where they eat their own children to survive. Only the little Puthisen, the son of the youngest sister, is spared. Puthisen grows then into the cave from child to young man. As a young adult he decides to liberate his mother and the eleven aunts.
Genres: Fantasy Horror
Original Language: km
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Thavory Meas Bong
Overview: Thavory and her big sister fall in love with the same man. Thavory marries him but falls into a dirty plot set up by her sister to drive her away.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: km
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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The Joy of Life
Overview: Captain Siporak and Inspector Sam Baun raid the gambling place at Kirirom owned by Prince Chantavong. This place is disguised as an orchid shop. As soon as Prince Chantavong is detained in jail, his wife, princess Sulpra, spends her time having a love relationship with her nephew. Then she meets Okhnia Sneha Sambat, a great hotelier. Okhnia takes her to a big island at Sihanoukville for their holiday. After being released from prison, Prince Chantavong, armed with guns, tries to look for her everywhere.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: km
Release Date: 1969-11-01
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Ten Thousand Sorrows
Overview: After the death of her mother, Nary decides to live her life independently, dressing and acting as a man in order to work at a taxi company, but Kosal soon finds out.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: km
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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Sobasith
Overview: Sovan Kesor, faithful to a promise made in her previous life, never speaks to men; so the king, her father, decides to marry her to a man who is able get her to talk to men.
Genres: Fantasy Romance
Original Language: km
Release Date: 1965-05-15
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Abul Kasem
Overview: The king of Baghdad sends out for an heir who is invulnerable and has a black mark on his hand, but is overthrown by a minister, whose son is the head of the army. It is up to the young Abul Kasem to save the kingdom.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: km
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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The Time to Cry
Overview: Love triangle
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: km
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Inav Bosba
Overview: Inav, prince of Daha, refuses an arranged marriage with Bosba, princess of Aden. Things change when another king asks for Bosba's hand in marriage, threatening war if she refuses.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: km
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Teav Aek
Overview: A talented novice monk named Tum (Kong Som Eun) falls in love with Teav (Vichara Dany), a very beautiful young lady. Teav give offerings to Tum and he proudly accepts the offers, despite Cambodian tradition forbidding a young female from engaging in any close activity with a monk (so giving offerings is not allowed). As the story progress, the relationship of Tum and Teav deepens. Teav's mother is unaware of the relationship between the monk she respects and her 16-year-old daughter. No, Teav's friendly assistant, helps conceal the relationship of Tum and Teav from Teav's mother. As soon as Teav's mother finds out that Tum is in love with her daughter, she forbids her daughter from ever seeing him again. The story ends in a dramatic tragedy when Tum is killed and Teav commits suicide.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: km
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Preah Peay Phat
Overview: A peasant, Chivon, played by Kong Som Eun, falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy man, "Preah Peay Phat", Vichara Dany. Chivon does everything he can in order to get his lovers attention but they are forbidden to see each other. When the peasant falls in love with another woman, Preah Peay Phat is heartbroken. That is when the terrible news is revealed, Preah Peay Phat and Chivon are brothers and sisters.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: km
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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