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Tom-Yum-Goong (ต้มยำกุ้ง) is a 2005 martial arts film from Thailand starring Tony Jaa. The movie was directed by Prachya Pinkaew, who also directed Jaa's prior breakout film Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior
. The fights were choreographed by Jaa and Panna Rittikrai, who also choreographed Ong-Bak.

Synopsis

Tony Jaa plays Kham, the last of a family line of guards who watched over the King of Thailand's war elephants. His family's white elephant and its baby, which are meant to be presented to the King, are stolen and smuggled to Australia, where Chinese Triads and Vietnamese gangs rule the streets. Kham journeys to the land down under in search of the prized pachyderms, but encounters fierce resistance.

Tony Jaa incorporates a new style of muay thai into this movie (มวยคชสาร, roughly translated as "Elephant Boxing"), emphasizing grappling moves. The fights in this film include duels with: a Wushu martial artist (Jon Foo), a Vietnamese Triad (Spider-man
stunt double Johnny Nguyen), a Capoeira fighter (Lateef Crowder), an extraordinarily strong bodyguard (Brad Pitt's first opponent in the movie Troy and former WWE wrestler Nathan Jones), and a whip-wielding transsexual Triad boss (world renowned ballerina Jing Xing).

Production notes

Compared to Ong-Bak, 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 CGI dream sequence), to the subtle (a glass window shattering in the four-minute steadicam shot that follows Jaa up several flights of stairs as he dispatches thug after thug in dramatic fashion).

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