Chocolate

Been a while since I was excited by a Thai movie, but this little bout of girl power has me chomping at the bit:

“Chocolate” tells the story of an autistic girl who learns how to fight both by absorbing the martial arts she sees on TV and from the muay thai boxing camp next to her home. When she discovers a list of debtors in her sick mother’s diary, she decides to go collecting. Her quest leads her to confrontations with criminal gangs and also her father, a member of the Japanese mafia.

It’s directed by Prachya Pinkaew who I like a lot. You can read more about the production here. And check out the trailer. It has a slow start, but then kicks off big time complete with a snippet of injured stuntmen, classic Jackie Chan style: