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Release year: 2008

Storyline

An autistic girl with powerful martial art skills looks to settle her ailing mother's debts by seeking out the ruthless gangs that owe her family money.

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Directors

Prachya Pinkaew

Writers

Cast

JeeJa Yanin — Zen
Hiroshi Abe — Masashi
Pongpat Wachirabunjong — No.8
Taphon Phopwandee — Mangmoon

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Did you know

• The film originally included Zen watching scenes from Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan movies (in addition to Tony Jaa), but these scenes were eventually cut due to licensing problems. These licensing problems also caused other scenes to be removed from the original movie. The ice factory scene was originally shot as a split screen of Zen imitating the exact same moves she had seen Bruce Lee do in a fight scene from the movie The Big Boss (1971). It showed a clip of Bruce Lee doing his fight moves at the same time as Zen was mimicking Bruce Lee's moves. The warehouse scene was shot in a similar fashion, but this time it showed a split screen of Zen imitating Jackie Chan, wherein she would do her interpretation of a Jackie Chan fight routine. Eventually not only were the split screen scenes removed, but any scenes that involved Zen performing moves that too closely resembled fight sequences from Bruce Lee or Jackie Chan movies were all cut as well. The original full version that included these scenes has not been released anywhere in Thailand.

• The way Zen sometimes eats candy by bouncing it off of her arm is reminiscent of a similar trick performed by Jackie Chann in several of his own movies.

• JeeJa Yanin's debut. Having studied ballet since a young age before taking on Taekwondo at 11, getting her first black belt at 13, starting coaching at 14 and becoming a national champion at 15, she auditioned for Born to Fight (2004) in 2003 at 19 years old. She so impressed the filmmakers that rather than casting her in a small part in that film, they decided to conceive an entire film around her, so she then quit her studies and spent two years training in Muay Thai, gymnastics, stunts, fighting with weapons with Panna Rittikrai's stunt team as well as studying acting before the film entered production. Shortly before the film's release, her first name was changed from Nitcharee (which means "kind-hearted") to Yanin (which means "knowledgeable").