Product Details

• Actors: Dida Diafat, Bernard Giraudeau, Florence Faivre, Lakshantha Abenayake, Sombat Metanee
• Directors: Xavier Durringer
• Writers: Dida Diafat, Xavier Durringer, Christophe Mordellet, François Greze, Véra Belmont
• Producers: Christian Gerber, Linda Gutenberg
• Format: Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), French (Dolby Digital 5.1)
• Subtitles: English, Chinese
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Tai Seng
• DVD Release Date: June 27, 2006
• Run Time: 105 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000FDEUZI
• Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #99,572 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Chok Dee: The Kickboxer" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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Studio: Tai Seng Entertainment Release Date: 11/20/2007 Run time: 105 minutes

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars so damn good!, January 7, 2009

By	RMT (Oakland CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Chok Dee: The Kickboxer (DVD)

Very good movie. What more could you want? Classic martial arts story. Meet master, stand outside in rain until master accepts you, train, meet super hot girl that becomes girlfriend/lover/wife and then become champion.
Played by real Muay Thai champion Dida Diafat, so the fights scenes are awesome.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars getting past, May 4, 2007

By	mark groleau "martail artist" (wyandotte mi) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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This review is from: Chok Dee: The Kickboxer (DVD)

once the story takes over this film gets really,really good!
and i 've seen a lot of horriable martail art films.

and this is quite good, buy it you watch it alot, its like the movie "iron and silk" but better directing and photography

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Gritty but Real, January 7, 2007

By	Martin Asiner "Adjunct College Instructor" (Jersey City, NJ) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Chok Dee: The Kickboxer (DVD)

Dida Diafat is not a known name in the United States. He is a French former world champion in Thai Kick boxing, who emigrated to Thailand and became the first non-Thai to win numerous Thai fighting titles. In CHOK DEE, Dida plays himself as Ryan, a former French prison inmate who has learned the rudiments of Thai fighting from an older inmate. Upon his release, Ryan flies to Bangkok to try to enter a school of kick fighting. He is refused entrance since he is a non-Thai. The bulk of the film is how he convinces the school's trainers to enroll him and once having done so, prepare him to fight in competition.

The problem with CHOK DEE is that the director did not know whether to film a KARATE KID with Dida in the Ralph Macchio role, a ROCKY with Dida as Sly, or even KICKBOXER with Dida as Jean Claude Van Damme. The result is a gritty pastiche of all three. That is not necessarily a bad thing either, so long as Dida would have been permitted to take center stage as the focus of action. Instead, they muddled the plot by introducing a number of subplots that worked at cross purposes with an otherwise strong performance by the surprisingly frail looking Dida, who can truly act better than he can fight. In order for a martial artist to resonate with the audience, he needs a worthy opponent. Look at Tong Po, the villainous Thai fighter from KICKBOXER, who pushed JCVD to his limits. In CHOK DEE, Dida's opponents were interchangeable and I had a hard time keeping straight one from the other. What I liked about Dida is that he limited his fighting mostly to the ring where he engaged in sanctioned bouts with rules. Tony Jaa, by contrast, another Thai movie martial artist fought numerous street thugs in a manner that distracted attention from fighting one on one and redirected it, Bruce Lee style, to one on many. Dida has natural dramatic talent and he has a future in film, even if that future has no punches or kicks in it.