A stylish debut from filmmakers Oxide and Danny Pang or the Pang Brothers, this gritty Thai action drama is about a silent hitman in the shady underworld of Bangkok. It also attracted a fair bit of attention and won the International Critics’ Award at the 2000 Toronto International Film Festival.
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Growing up in a poor neighborhood, Kong (Pawalit Mongkolpisit) is both deaf and mute and gets bullied constantly as a child. As an adult he works as a cleaner in a gun shooting range where he meets Joe (Pisek Intrakanchit), a hitman and his girlfriend Aom (Patharawarin Timkul). Impressed by Kong’s shooting ability during a brief target practice, Jo takes him in and trains him as a small time hitman. Since they work so well as a team, they get more assignments and their bond grows even stronger.
In the meantime, Kong happens to meet...
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Growing up in a poor neighborhood, Kong (Pawalit Mongkolpisit) is both deaf and mute and gets bullied constantly as a child. As an adult he works as a cleaner in a gun shooting range where he meets Joe (Pisek Intrakanchit), a hitman and his girlfriend Aom (Patharawarin Timkul). Impressed by Kong’s shooting ability during a brief target practice, Jo takes him in and trains him as a small time hitman. Since they work so well as a team, they get more assignments and their bond grows even stronger.
In the meantime, Kong happens to meet...
- 6/23/2022
- by David Chew
- AsianMoviePulse
[Updated with new poster and much higher quality trailer.]
Thanapon Maliwan’s The Sanctuary is a film that we’ve been tracking here for a good while now. Maliwan rose to attention as one of the directors in the Pechpanna Productions stable, the Thai action outfit where both Panna Rittikrai and Tony Jaa got their starts, Maliwan directing both Jaa and his mentor is at least one early pre-Ong Bak film together. And then there’s star Mike B, a Thai stunt man who was one of the key stunt performers in Ong Bak who Maliwan has been grooming for stardom for a little while.
This particular project began life as Dead End before finance troubles forced it to be suspended for a while and Maliwan and Mike B went off and made inconsistent action-comedy Brave instead. That project out of the way the materials from Dead End were reworked and redeveloped and the project re-launched as The Sanctuary...
Thanapon Maliwan’s The Sanctuary is a film that we’ve been tracking here for a good while now. Maliwan rose to attention as one of the directors in the Pechpanna Productions stable, the Thai action outfit where both Panna Rittikrai and Tony Jaa got their starts, Maliwan directing both Jaa and his mentor is at least one early pre-Ong Bak film together. And then there’s star Mike B, a Thai stunt man who was one of the key stunt performers in Ong Bak who Maliwan has been grooming for stardom for a little while.
This particular project began life as Dead End before finance troubles forced it to be suspended for a while and Maliwan and Mike B went off and made inconsistent action-comedy Brave instead. That project out of the way the materials from Dead End were reworked and redeveloped and the project re-launched as The Sanctuary...
- 5/9/2009
- by Todd Brown
- Screen Anarchy
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