tear of the black tiger be a florid and mind bending and highly cinematic parody of genre . east meet west and sam peckinpah meet douglas sirk in wisit sasanatieng brilliant and highly stylized work . in an outrageous palette of costume and make up and set and color ( hot neon and cool pastel and some digitally manufacture ) and this be the tale of rumpoey and a girl bear into wealth and and her love for dum and a peasant boy . a young adult and dum ( thai heartthrob chartchai ngansam ) join a gun sling outlaw band know a the tiger and while rumpoey be betroth to a slick and handsome police captain and kumjorn . much of the film appear to be set in the early 1960s and though it outlaw be strictly of the american wild west variety ( albeit with hand hold rocket launcher ) . imbue with a sense of great fun and tear of the black tiger be camp and absurd and surreal and melodramatic and strangely poignant and serve up in a sumptuous and candy color coating .