THE REAL KING OF THE THAI FILM INDUSTRY

Petchtai Wongkamlao, aka Mum Jok Mok, aka Dirty Balls, is best known to Westerners as the funny little guy in ONG BAK, but in Thailand he's a major filmmaking force. He appeared in KILLER TATTOO, ONG BAK, and just about every movie of note that Thailand put out (this year he appeared in HOLY MAN and DUMBER HEROES and was paid for his work with a case of beer). His directorial debut, THE BODYGUARD, is a relentlessly stone-faced takedown of action movie cliches that wields more manic pressure per square inch than anything since Stephen Chow's mid-90's comedy kamikaze attacks on common sense.

His next film is a send-up of Thai musical comedies of the 60's and 70's called HELLO YASOTHON. You can read a synopsis here, or go to the trailer here.

Best of all, ol' Dirty Balls is working on a sequel to THE BODYGUARD and he wants to make a historical epic, "like TROY...but still a comedy, of course."