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‘The Furious’: How Japan’s Tanigaki Kenji Elevated a Steaming Bangkok Red Light District Into a Temple of Martial Arts Action (EXCLUSIVE)
With recently-wrapped 'The Furious,' Japanese director Tanigaki Kenji elevated a Bangkok red light district into a martial arts film paradise.
The “police station” built in a few days from an old retail unit in Surawong, central Bangkok, is so realistic from the outside that several pedestrians stop and stare, perhaps wondering if this is the place they should come to report some petty crime in the adjacent Patpong red light district. Being used for 18 days of a three-month shoot, the police station is a key location for “The Furious,” a revenge action movie that veteran producer Bill Kong(“Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” “Hero”) hopes will serve as a powerful reminder that Asian martial arts films can still rival the high-tech thrills of their modern Hollywood counterparts. Kong has assembled an impressive pan-Asian cast of actors and fighters and built the movie around Tanigaki Kenji, a Japanese action choreographer-turned-director and associate of Donnie Yen.
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