Chocolate – for martial arts movie lovers!

“Time For Some Action” is a new monthly spotlight where we bring you great movies with fighting scenes and stuff blowing up. This is not the date movie corner. (Unless your date is into that, then hey!) Now, if you’re a true action movie lover, you’ve seen all the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean martial arts movies. NO? then we have a movie for you. Last month we brought you the trailer to an amazing movie called “Dynamite Warrior” which, judging by the emails, had fighting styles a lot of you had never seen. Well, you need to get up on the Thai fighting movies. You need to know Tony Jaa. But before all of that, you need to go wherever you rent movies from and ask for a movie called “Chocolate”.

We all know the person who watches both parts “Kill Bill” every time it’s on TV, and “Enter The Dragon” on G4 like it’s new. Maybe that person is you. And the person (maybe you) is always sitting there imagining they can do all of Jackie Chan’s moves based on the fact that they are watching the movie. Until they get into the parking lot and start trying to do a flip. But what if you COULD watch movies and master all your favorite styles? If you’re thinking you’d go across country whooping everybody who crossed your path, then you are ready to watch “Chocolate”. You will believe a 90 pound girl can whoop your behind in multiple styles.

Here’s the plot:

A young autistic woman named Zen (Yanin Vismistananda) 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.

The girl is the daughter of Zin (Ammara Siripong), the Thai wife of Yakuza boss Masashi (Hiroshi Abe).

Zin (the mother) was previously the girlfriend of Thai gangster No. 8 (Pongpat Wachirabunjong), who was jealous of her relationship with rival gangster Masashi.

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. 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 Muum. Feeling sorry for his plight she takes him in.

Zin then falls ill with cancer, and does not have the money to pay for treatments. One day, Muum discovers a list of debtors in an old notebook, from the days when Zin was a high-interest moneylender under No. 8. In order to get money to pay for her mother’s cancer treatment, Zen and Muum decide to collect on the debts, which leads to confrontations with various criminal gangs and, eventually, No. 8.

This movie is available on DVD for rental RIGHT NOW at Netflix, Blockbuster, or wherever you rent. If you love fighting movies, and can stand a little story mixed in, I cannot say enough…WATCH THIS.