ONG-BAK: THE THAI WARRIOR [BLU-RAY + DVD]

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• Release Year: 2003
• Genre: Action; Suspense/Thriller
• Plot: Thai stuntman Tony Jaa makes his starring debut in this martial arts action film directed by Prachya Pinkaew. Jaa plays Ting, who was discovered as an infant in a village in rural Thailand and raised by monks who taught him the Thai martial art of Muay Thai. Ting is sent to Bangkok when the head of the town's statue of the Buddha, to which they pray to bring the annual rains to their drought-stricken region, is stolen. The country boy is plunged into the big city's seething criminal underworld, and forced to use his fighting skills to dispatch a parade of thugs in an underground fight club on his way to finding the criminal mastermind who stole the Buddha head so he can return it before drought and starvation bring his hometown to ruin.
• Cast: Petchtai Wongkamlao; Tony Jaa; Pumwaree Yodkamol; Suchao Pongwilai; Chumphorn Thepphithak; Cheathavuth Watcharakhun; Wannakit Sirioput; Rungrawee Barijindakul; Chatthapong Pantanaunkul; Nudhapol Asavabhakhin; Pornpimol Chookanthong; Udom Chouncheun; Boonsri Yindee; Arirat Ratanakaitkosol; Woravit Tanochitsirikul; Chalongsak Sirimahasan; Sawang Rodnuch; Sutin Rodnuch; Woranard Tantipidok; Somjaj Junmoonree; Somchai Moonma; Taworn Tonapan; Dan Chupong; Chaiporn Gunmoontree; Don Ferguson; David Ismalone; Erik Markus Schuetz; Paul Gaius; Nick Kara; Sukanya Kongkawong; Panna Rittikrai; Prachya Pinkaew
• Director: Prachya Pinkaew
• Runtime: 1:45
• Company: Baa-Ram-Ewe, Sahamongkolfilm International, Alliance Films
• Media Format: Movie