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Happy Birthday Tony Jaa!

Happy Birthday to Tony Jaa who turns 39 today! Tony Jaa, otherwise known in Thailand as Jaa Phanom is a Thai martial artist, teacher, actor, action choreographer, film producer, stuntman, director, and has even spent some time as a Buddhist monk.

His most notable films include Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior, Tom-Yum-Goong (aka Warrior King or The Protector), Ong-Bak 2: The Beginning, Ong Bak 3 and Tom Yum Goong 2 (or The Protector 2).

Forthcoming films include Fast & Furious 7 and Skin Trade.

You can read more about him on Wikipedia here.

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Trailer: Ong-Bak

 

Trailer: Warrior King

Elliot Richards

Elliot is KFK's Web Content Editor, writer and lover of all kinds of movies, including martial arts ones. Favourites include The Prodigal Son, Magnificent Butcher, The Victim, Legend of a Fighter and the Ip Man movies with Donnie Yen.

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