14th New York Asian Film Festival

Jun 26 - Jul 11, 2015

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Vengeance of an Assassin

เร็วทะลุเร็ว.

There will never be another Panna Rittikrai. Vengeance of an Assassin is the final, brutal battlesong from the kinetic master of mayhem who discovered Tony Jaa and put Thai action cinema on the map. It's a no-holds-barred all-you-can-eat action fiesta, delivering everything from badass games of soccer to high impact gun-fu. It's also the heartwarming story of two buff orphans who believe in filial piety and tearing thugs apart like warm bread. When the eldest brother (Thai stunt king Dan Chupong) leaves home in search of the truth behind their parents' deaths, a web of secrets, carnage, and more carnage follows him wherever he goes. When he's forced to team up with his little brother (21-year-old Nantawooti Boonrapsup, all grown up since 2010's Power Kids), it becomes an ass-kicking family affair. The master of single-take destruction, Rittikrai delivers Buster Keaton-style train brawls, flying sledgehammers, copious gun fights and one glorious, Freudian double impalement. In the scorching, sweat-drenched dreamlife of Panna Rittikrai, family and honor are everything, and justice can only be forged from superior skill and righteous physical destruction.

Director: Panna Rittikrai
Cast: Nisachon Tuamsunnoen, Ping Lumpraploeng, Nathawut Boonrubsu, Dan Chupong
Languages: Thai with English subtitles
2014; 99 min.; DCP

SCHEDULE:

Friday July 10, 6:00pm
SVA Theatre