Tom-Yum-Goong

Tom-Yum-Goong
The English-language Thai movie poster
Directed byPrachya Pinkaew
Screenplay byNapalee
Piyaros Thongdee
Joe Wannapin
Kongdej Jaturanrasamee
Story byPrachya Pinkaew
Produced byPrachya Pinkaew
Sukanya Vongsthapat
StarringTony Jaa
Petchtai Wongkamlao
Bongkoj Khongmalai
Jin Xing
Johnny Tri Nguyen
Nathan B. Jones
Lateef Crowder
Jonathan Patrick Foo
CinematographyNattawut Kittikhun
Edited byMarut Seelacharoen
Music byZomkiat Ariyachaipanich
Production
companies
Sahamongkol
Baa-ram-ewe
Distributed bySahamongkol Film International (Thailand)[1]
The Weinstein Company (International)[2]
Release date
  • 11 August 2005 (2005-08-11)
Running time
110 minutes
CountriesThailand
Australia
LanguagesThai
English
Mandarin
Vietnamese
Spanish
Budget$5 million
Box office$27 million

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.

  1. ^ "Spider-Man (2002)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 5 February 2009.
  2. ^ "Heroic Bloodshed: How Hong Kong's style was swiped by Hollywood". British Film Institute. 11 July 2019. Retrieved 9 September 2019.