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The Protector(Movie, 2005)

Original title: "ต้มยำกุ้ง" (Thai/TH)
FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 51min | Genres: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
The ProtectorRating: 3.6/5 (with 394394 votes)
Tom-Yum-Goong (Thai: ต้มยำกุ้ง, IPA: [tôm jam kûŋ]) is a 2005 Thai martial arts film directed by Prachya Pinkaew and stars Tony Jaa in the lead role. Pinkaew also directed Jaa's prior breakout film Ong-Bak. As with Ong-Bak, the fights were choreographed by Jaa and his mentor Panna Rittikrai. The film was distributed as Warrior King in the United Kingdom, as The Protector in the United States, as Thai Dragon in Spain, as Revenge of the Warrior in Germany, and as Honor of the Dragon in Russia and CIS countries. In India, it was named as Haathi Mere Saathi from a name of another Bollywood film starring Rajesh Khanna. ()
Movie poster of The Protector

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About The Protector

A young fighter named Kham must go to Australia to retrieve his stolen elephant. With the help of a Thai-born Australian detective, Kham must take on all comers, including a gang led by an evil woman and her two deadly bodyguards.

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Additional Information

Production countries: Australia, France, Hong Kong, Thailand
Shot in: Sydney, Thailand
Plays in: Sydney, Thailand
Original language: Thai (TH)
Spoken languages: English (EN), Thai (TH), Vietnamese (VI), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Translated into 27 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Catalan (CA), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Persian (FA), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Slovak (SK), Swedish (SV), Thai (TH), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Vietnamese (VI), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 07/06/2006 (World premiere: 08/11/2005)
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Tom-Yum-Goong"
"Tom yum goong"
"O Protetor"
"Revenge of the Warrior - Tom Yum Goong"
"Thai Dragon"
"L'Honneur du dragon"
"Warrior King"
"옹박 두번째 미션"
"The Protector (Original Thai Version)"
Budget: 6,000,000 USD
Revenue: 27,165,581 USD (= 453%)

2 movies in the The Protector Collection

2005 The Protector
2013 The Protector 2 ("ต้มยำกุ้ง 2")

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Other movies with this title: The Protector (JP, 1966), The Protector (ES/FR, 1974), The Protector (HK/US, 1985), The Protector (US, 1998), The Protector (1999), The Protector (US, 2006), The Protector (CZ, 2009), The Protector (GB/US, 2019), The Protector (DE, 2021), The Protector (CA, 2022), The Protector (2023)

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