Director: Waasuthep Ketpetch
Collecting debts for a living rarely leaves room for love, but Love You to Debt sets its story in exactly that collision, where a seaside town's underworld and its romance can't be pulled apart.
What is Love You to Debt about?
Set against the backdrop of a well-known coastal town in Thailand, the film follows a debt collector whose job pushes him into confrontation and violence on a near-daily basis. That line of work brings him into contact with people who exist far outside it, and the film builds its romance out of the friction between a man defined by conflict and a life that keeps pulling him toward something gentler. Rather than treating the seaside setting as scenery, the story uses the town's rhythms, its debts and dependencies, as the engine for both the danger and the connection at its center. Director Waasuthep Ketpetch keeps the action grounded in a specific place rather than a generic backdrop, giving the romance real stakes when it collides with the collector's daily work. Vachirawit Chivaaree leads as the man caught between two lives, opposite Urassaya Sperbund, in a film that leans into both its action beats and its emotional core.
Cast & crew
Vachirawit Chivaaree plays the debt collector at the story's center, with Urassaya Sperbund opposite him as the romance takes shape alongside the violence of his profession. Pornchita Na Songkhla and Niti Chaichitathorn fill out a cast drawn from Thailand's film and television industry, giving the seaside setting a recognizable, homegrown feel.
Context & significance
Love You to Debt is a 2024 Thai production running a substantial 135 minutes, giving equal room to its action sequences and its romantic drama rather than compressing either. The seaside-town setting and the debt-collection premise give it a specific regional flavor that sets it apart from more generic crime-romance hybrids.
Where & how to watch
Love You to Debt can be watched on K-Time with a free account login, and includes Persian dubbing along with Persian subtitles for viewers following the story in Farsi. K-Time's entire interface runs in Farsi, built specifically for the Iranian diaspora, so the experience of finding and playing the film stays fully in Persian from start to finish.