konknaijaboy | On 17, Feb 2014

4. Ong-Bak

Also known as Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior or Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior, this martial arts film stars Tony Jaa in what would become his breakout role. In the film, Jaa plays “Ting,” a villager who volunteers to go to Bangkok in order to recover the stolen head of a Buddha statue known as Ong-Bak.

Jaa uses a traditional Thai kickboxing martial art known as muay Thai as well as his natural acrobatic abilities to create an exciting martial arts film with a classic “fish-out-of-water” storyline. The film made Tony Jaa a world-famous martial arts movie star and spawned two sequels: Ong Bak 2: The Beginning and Ong-Bak 3.