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CHOCOLATE (2008) amazing JeeJa Yanin's debut actioner

$CHOCOLATE (2008) amazing JeeJa Yanin\'s debut actioner$

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also known as FURY and ZEN and ZEN THE WARRIOR WITHIN

director: Prachya Rinkaew
starring: JeeJa Yanin (as Yanin Vismitananda) · Taphon Phopwandee · Hiroshi Abe · Ammara Siripong

The director of ONG BAK is back with a slam-bam tale of an autistic young woman named Zen with powerful martial art skills. She takes it upon herself to seek out and eliminate gangsters who have swindled her mom. A bit later, she assists her estranged father - a Japanese gangster played by Hiroshi Abe - when he returns to Thailand seeking vengeance against a Thai mobster.

Ms Yanin is a 24 year old actress who makes her debut with this incredible actioner. She is an accomplished black-belt martial arts' master who had been working as a stunt woman (DARNA) in the Philippines when discovered by director Prachya Pinkaew, the current President of Thai Film Directors' Association. While her talent is breathtaking and undeniable, she also benefits from the assured camerawork of Mr Pinkaew. He is an expert filmmaker, especially when dealing with martial arts, and ultimately responsible for bringing Tony Jaa to International notoriety with the aforementioned ONG BAK. When Tony had his meltdown during the shooting of ONG BAK 2 [refer to the article in Asian Cult Cinema #62], director Rinkaew refused to work with him for ONG BAK 3. In fact - now that Tony Ja was considered undependable by Rinkaew - he would never work with him again. Instead, he began to spend more time as a producer, concentrating on the next movie from his new female action star JeeJa Yanin, RAGING PHOENIX.

A Thai film; original widescreen format (16:9), uncut (88 min.) version in DVD
encoded for ALL REGIONS NTSC, playable on any American DVD machine;
in Thai language with excellent removable English subtitles.

Martial Arts Violence/Adult Material/Drugs:
For Mature Audiences

$19.95