When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Sometime later this year a game based on Tony Jaa's niche martial-arts flick, Ong-Bak, will be ...

Prachya Pinkaew’s thriller film Ong-Bak (2003) follows the legendary Thai martial arts warrior Muay Thai as he embarks on the quest to restore the revered statue Ong-Bak stolen from Bangkok. Here’s ...

Ever since Bruce Lee's exit from the martial arts scene, genre fans have been desperately seeking a replacement. Jet Li made a run for the crown, but too many bad U.S. films have slowed him down. With ...

NEWS BRIEF: Hong Kong-based distributor O4 Media has announced a strategic partnership with Scott Einbinder’s LA- and Madrid-based studio 5X Media and Sahamongkolfilm International Thailand (SIT) to ...

Chopsocky gets a shot in the arm with this no holds-barred actioner that could propel martial artist Tony Jaa into a career beyond Thai borders. With little plot and a refreshing absence of effects, ...

Ong Bak – The Thai Warrior is a Thai-language martial arts drama film. Directed by Tony Jaa, the plot follows a young villager’s calm life turning into turmoil when a Buddha statue gets stolen from ...

It takes a reel or two for the creaky exposition to get out of the way, but the bone-crunching martial-arts saga Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior finally hits its stride by recognizing a cliché and ...

Ever since Bruce Lee's exit from the martial arts scene, genre fans have been desperately seeking a replacement. Jet Li made a run for the crown, but too many bad US films have slowed him down. With ...

Half an hour into “Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior” I thought I’d made a terrible mistake. The movie was impossible to follow and appeared to have been shot by blind kids with a Super 8 camera. Shots were ...

If the stories are true — and only a scene or two in Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior made me question their authenticity — Tony Jaa is not human. The stories are that Jaa performed his amazing string of ...