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Gangster's moll in Thailand falls for Japanese dude from competing gang. He goes back to Japan, she stays in Thailand and raises their autistic daughter while boarding in a martial arts school. Zen (the daughter) spends her time imitating the kids practicing their punching and kicking. It turns out she has some uncanny physical abilities. Her cousin Moom exploits these abilities by having her give demonstrations in the street and collecting donations from the crowd. This turns out to be a good thing when mom contracts cancer and they need money for treatments. But the pittance he collects from the crowd is nowhere near enough to pay for all the treatments. Then Moom discovers a little black book with a list of people who owe mom money. So Moom and Zen go out to collect. Moom is a nice kid who simply asks for the money, but that doesn't work so well. Zen gets it through her head that this guy owes her mom money, and when he throws an abacus at her head, well, it's all over but the shouting.

It's a great film. JeeJa Yanin (Zen) might be the next Jackie Chan. It's a good story, and the fight scenes are thoroughly entertaining. There's a new trick in dang near every punch and kick. Our heroine (Zen) is so light, and thin and flexible she can do things no man should ever attempt.

The villain seems to have an endless supply of thugs, and towards the end of the movie when Zen is working on her second hundred knockdowns, it gets a little old. We also have a couple of instances of people who have been seriously wounded doing things they shouldn't be able to, but that is kind of standard in movies like this. Besides, they're gangsters, they are probably coked to the gills and don't even realize they should be dead.