Voranart Tantipidok

Fak, a young Thai man who leaves the monkhood to care for his ailing father. When he returns home, he finds his father has married a much younger woman. She is very beautiful, but she is also mentally unbalanced. Then the father dies, leaving Fak to care for his insane stepmother. Soon Fak's neighbors in this remote village are talking about him, saying he is sleeping with his stepmother. This rejection by the villagers sends Fak into a spiral of despair.

While animal hunting, Wittaya and Lokrai inadvertently offend Nang Takien, the guardian spirit of the forest, who then kills Lokrai. Wittaya is forced to take care of his friend's son, Kham Thong. As a young man, Kham Thong falls in love with Wittaya's daughter Porn but Wittaya prefers Trai, a civil engineer who came to their village to coordinate the building of a dam. When the dam was completed, the village flooded and Wittaya was tasked with clearing every tree, including a big Takien tree.

Nong Pradu, un village paisible niché dans une vallée boisée de Thaïlande, est en deuil après le vol de son Bouddha sacré : Ong-Bak. Ting, entraîné secrètement au Muay Thai, art ancien de boxe thaï, se désigne pour aller le récupérer dans la fournaise de Bangkok.