Thai martial-arts star Tony Jaa started the current renaissance in South Asian action cinema alongside director Prachya Pinkaew with the 2003 film ‘Ong-Bak,’ but eleven years on, the warts in their style are starting to show.
The Kick Written by Jong-suk Lee, based on a story by Prachya Pinkaew Directed by Prachya Pinkaew Thailand/South Korea 2011 Fantasia imdb Traditionally, films that pit one country’s martial arts against the martial arts from other countries are blood-soaked chauvinistic affairs like One Armed Boxer and its sequel Master of the Flying Guillotine. Both great films, they up the ante on the Kung …
For those that are confused (which would obviously include me) the column that has the url: http://www.popoptiq.com/fantasia-2012-mike-ryans-five-most-anticipated-films/ is actually my column on the five films that I am most upset to be MISSING. This is my column on five seven films that I am most looking forward to: 1) Takashi Miike (For Love’s Sake and …