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* Ong-Bak: Muay Thai WarriorThai actor Tony Jaa performed a number of stunts for the film, suffering injuries such as a ligament injury and a sprained ankle.
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Ong-Bak and Muay
A memorable tuk-tuk chase features in the Thai film Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior, climaxing with many of them driving off the edge of an unfinished elevated expressway.
His films include Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior, Tom-Yum-Goong ( also called Warrior King or The Protector ), Ong-Bak 2: The Beginning, and Ong Bak 3.
Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior ( ), also known in the United States as Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior is a 2003 Thai action film.
* For the release in Singapore, Australia and other territories, as well as film festivals, the movie was released as Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior.
* Pumwaree Yodkamol, who co-starred in Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior, is seen briefly, portraying a Thai tourist in a Sydney street scene.
Compared to Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior, which was noted for its lack of wirework and CGI, this movie uses CGI in several scenes, from the obvious ( helicopter scene, and an entirely computer-animated dream sequence ), to the subtle ( a glass window shattering in the four-minute steadicam long take that follows Jaa up several flights of stairs as he dispatches thug after thug in dramatic fashion ).
As with Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior English-language subtitled DVDs of Tom-Yum-Goong were not made available when the movie was distributed for home video in Asia.
Born to Fight featured more of the hard-hitting stuntwork that struck a chord with action fans in Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior.
It followed Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior, on which Panna served as martial arts choreographer, and featured more of his " no strings attached " stuntwork.
He previously played " Bodyguard 4 " in Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior, which starred Tony Jaa and featured stunt choreography by Panna.
Ong-Bak and Thai
* In the United States, Canada and other areas, the movie was released as Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior.
On February 11, 2005, the film was released in North America in 387 theatres under the title Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior.
It is a relatively small city and is mainly noteworthy due to it being the setting of the popular Thai martial arts film Ong-Bak starting Tony Jaa.
Ong-Bak and actor
Ong-Bak proved to be Jaa's breakout film, with the actor hailed internationally as the next major martial-arts star.
Ong-Bak and Jaa
While Jaa was working on Ong-Bak 2, director Prachya Pinkaew and action ya choreographer Panna Rittikrai were working on Chocolate, starring a female martial artist, Nicharee Vismistananda, and released February 6, 2008.
Jaa went on to star in Tom-Yum-Goong ( called The Protector in the US and Warrior King in the UK ) and directed 2 sequels to Ong-Bak, Ong-Bak 2, Ong-Bak 3.
Ong-Bak and for
After Ong-Bak became a hit in Thailand, sales rights for outside Asia were purchased by Luc Besson's EuropaCorp, which in turn re-edited the film.
Ong-Bak and film
The film begins in Ban Nong Pradu, a rural village in northeastern Thailand whose most prized possession is an ancient Buddha image, named Ong-Bak.
Ong-Bak premiered as the closing film of the 2003 Bangkok International Film Festival, and then opened in a wide release in Thailand cinemas in February 2003.
Counterfeit editions of the DVD also marketed the film as " Ong Bak 2 ", which was the Thai working title of the film and is the Chinese-language name of the movie, but which has been re-applied to the sequel to Ong-Bak, Ong-Bak 2.
Ong-Bak and .
Martial films include The Karate Kid, Kung Fu Hustle, Fearless, Ninja Assassin, Ong-Bak, Shanghai Noon, Kill Bill, Fist of Legend, Iron Monkey, Drunken Master, Enter the Dragon, Mortal Kombat, Flashpoint, Champion of Death, Karate Bearfighter, Doberman Cop, Golgo 13: Assignment Kowloon and The Street Fighter series.
" The French producer-director's company, EuropaCorp, would go on to purchase the international selling rights to Ong-Bak outside Asia.
Muay and Thai
* The 2005 film The Protector shows a duel from Muay Thai fighter Tony Jaa and Capoeira fighter Lateef Crowder.
In 1976, at the age of 14, Boztepe began studying martial arts, including judo, Shotokan karate, wrestling, Muay Thai, and traditional boxing.
During this period, he also fought as an amateur boxer in 16 matches and obtained a title in Muay Thai.
Kickboxing ( in Japanese ) is a group of martial arts and stand-up combat sports based on kicking and punching, historically developed from Karate, Muay Thai and Western boxing.
* In the wider sense, it includes all stand-up combat sports that allow both punching and kicking, including Savate, Muay Thai, Indian boxing, Burmese boxing, Sanda, styles of Karate, etc.
The term kickboxing ( キックボクシング ) itself was introduced in the 1960s as a Japanese anglicism by Japanese boxing promoter Osamu Noguchi for a hybrid martial art combining Muay Thai and karate which he had introduced in 1958.
** Thai boxing or Muay Thai – the modern Thai martial art with strong emphasis on knee and elbow strikes.
The art resembles Muay Thai in a sense, but differs in the hip torquing motion as well as downward-cutting of its kicks.
Tatsuo Yamada, who established " Nihon Kempo Karate-do ", was interested in Muay Thai because he wanted to perform karate matches with full-contact rules since practitioners are not allowed to hit each other directly in karate matches.
It is still unknown whether Thai fighters were invited by Yamada, but it is clear that Yamada was the only karateka who was really interested in Muay Thai.
Yamada invited a Thai fighter who was the champion of Muay Thai ( and formerly his son Kan Yamada's sparring partner ), and started studying Muay Thai.
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