CHOCOLATE

Chocolate (Thai)

The Story:
Autistic girl Zen (Yanin Wismitanant) has developed uncanny martial arts skills by watching television, and from living next door to a Muay Thai academy. It is shown that Zen has uncanny reflexes and is able to catch balls thrown without even looking.

Zen is the daughter of Zin (Amara Siripong), the wife of Yakuza boss Masashi (Hiroshi Abe).

Zin was previously the girlfriend of Thai gangster No. 8 (Pongpat Wachirabunjong), who was jealous of her relationship with rival gangster Masashi. After Zin chose Masashi, he shot his own toe and forbids Zin from ever seeing him again. Zin asks Masashi to go back to Japan as they would not be able to be together safely. He begrudgingly leaves.

Soon after Zin finds herself pregnant and moves into a new place to get away from No. 8. She has a daughter that she names Zen. Soon it is discovered that Zen suffers from Autism and will need special care. As Zen gets older, one day Zin decides to tell Masashi about his daughter by writing him a letter. No. 8 finds out that Zin is in contact with Masashi and is furious. He visits Zin and cuts off one of Zin's toes, to remind her she is forbidden from seeing Masashi.

Zin is forced to move again to a house shared by a Muay Thai kickboxing school. Zen becomes infatuated with martial arts and begins to self-teach herself by mimicking the moves she sees as well as what she watches on television. One day when coming home from work Zin sees a poor little boy being picked on in the streets named Moom. Feeling sorry for his plight she takes him in.

When her mother Zin falls ill with cancer Zen innocently tries to get money from people labeled indebted in Zin's old notebook. This leads her to confront Zin's past as a gang member of No.8, a Thai mafia boss. Meanwhile Zen's Japanese father and No.8's rival, Masashi, a Yakuza, decides to come back to protect his daughter and the woman he left behind years ago. A raging war begins and Zen must bring out her very best to get through.

Starring:
Yanin "Jeeja" Wismitanant, Ammara Siripong, Pongpat Wachirabunjong, Lim Su Jeong, Hiroshi Abe

Directed By:
Prachya Pinkaew

Release:
2008

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TRUCKER

TRUCKER

The Story:
Diane Ford (Michelle Monaghan), a vivacious and successful independent truck driver, leads a carefree life of long-haul trucking, one night stands and all-night drinking until the evening her estranged 11-year-old son (Jimmy Bennett) shows up at her door.

Peter hasn't seen his mother since he was a baby and wants Diane as little as she wants him; but with his father Len (Benjamin Bratt) in the hospital, Diane and Peter are stuck with each other - at least for a while.

Burdened with this new responsibility and seeing the life of freedom she's fought for jeopardized, Diane steps reluctantly into her past and looks sidelong at a future that is not as simple or straightforward as she had once believed.

Starring:
Michelle Monaghan, Nathan Fillion, Benjamin Bratt, Joey Lauren Adams, Jimmy Bennett

Directed By:
James Mottern

Release:
2008

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