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...Muay Thai Warrior, the stunt man-turned-actor leaps across boiling oil, ballets above an array of tuk tuks and beats up anyone foolish enough to challenge him. The insane inventiveness of the stunts?done without special effects, wirework or apparent concern for Jaa's life and limb?has turned into box-office gold in Thailand, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, South Korea and even France, where the film found a fan and international distributor in action auteur Luc Besson. Besson recut the film and secured a U.S. distribution deal with Magnolia Pictures. Expectations are high that...
...sought out the Thai stunt coordinator and low-budget action director Panna Ritthikrai, who took him on as a prot?g?. He went to a gymnastics college and soon found work as a stunt man in local and international films, including 1997's Mortal Kombat 2. Then he and Ritthikrai started devising their own stunts inspired by muay boran, a more elegant and traditional form of Thai boxing that resembles kung fu. Jaa traveled the countryside talking to the few remaining old masters of muay boran, rediscovering more than 100 long-abandoned moves. Ritthikrai and Jaa filmed the actor's best...
...busy filming his second movie, Tom Yum Goong, in Thailand and Australia, that he has no time to improve his wardrobe, his hairstyle or his English. "Bruce Lee couldn't speak Thai," Jaa says. "And I loved him, anyway...
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...task. While security forces have rounded up scores of suspects in recent months, no ringleader has yet been captured. "We have all the names," Thaksin told TIME, "[but] we cannot find them." That may be because the main figures are not based in Thailand. Ever since militants attacked a Thai army camp in January, killing four soldiers and disappearing with more than 400 automatic weapons, officials have become increasingly convinced that leaders of the insurgency are hiding in Malaysia, given the laxity of frontier checkpoints. "It's not easy looking for them because they are in and out [of Thailand...