The Elephant Is the Best Thing in Jaa's Jungle Rumble ; Also Showing

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Thailand's Tony Jaa sprang on to the world cinema stage in 2003 with Ong-Bak, heralding a new martial-arts star to follow in the tradition of Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and Jet Li.

Jaa's fighting style was a concoction of disciplines, including Thai dancing, Muay Thai and kung fu, and his ambition was to come up with the most cinematic of looks for his martial arts battles. He called it Natayuth. For a lay viewer such as myself, its key move seems to involve kneeing people where it really hurts.

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The Elephant Is the Best Thing in Jaa's Jungle Rumble ; Also Showing

Jaa became quite the star after Ong-Bak's global success and it appears to have gone to his head. He writes, produces, directs, choreographs an...

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