Hong Kong The Protector is a Hong Kong–Thailand co-production — one of only a handful of such cross-border film titles indexed here.
Synopsis
ต้มยำกุ้ง
“Vengeance Knows No Mercy.”
In Bangkok, the young Kham was raised by his father in the jungle with elephants as members of their family. When his old elephant and the baby Kern are stolen by criminals, Kham finds that the animals were sent to Sidney. He travels to Australia, where he locates the baby elephant in a restaurant owned by the evil Madame Rose, the leader of an international Thai mafia. With the support of the efficient Thai sergeant Mark, who was involved in a conspiracy, Kham fights to rescue the animal from the mobsters.
Audience Engagement
774 audience reviews — more than 96% of Hong Kong films in our index.
Popularity sits at the 97th percentile among Hong Kong films.
Hong Kong × Thailand Co-Production
Other Hong Kong×Thailand titles
Other Titles From Sahamongkolfilm
Action + Crime in Hong Kong
119 Hong Kong titles in our catalog blend the Action and Crime genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding The Protector itself).
The 2004–2006 Hong Kong Window
Among 46 Hong Kong films we catalog from this window, The Protector places #5 — near the top of its class.
The 2000s Hong Kong Landscape
Catalog density by release year across the 2000s in Hong Kong, 146 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when The Protector premiered alongside 12 others.
Budget & Box Office Efficiency
At a 1h 51m runtime, production spent $54K per minute on screen and earned $245K per minute back.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 12 other Hong Kong films in 2005.
The 585th Hong Kong title from Hong Kong we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1955).
Our Hong Kong catalog contains 836 titles in total (828 films).
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on The Protector, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- elephant · 5
- sydney · 2
- tempel · 2
- gang · 26
- fighter · 25
- buddhism · 22
- animal · 21
- australia · 9
- australia · 9
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #106 of 836 Hong Kong films indexed here (87th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is +0.8 points above the Hong Kong average of 6.3/10.
Among Hong Kong Action productions specifically: #57 of 516 (top 11%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | Hong Kong |
|---|---|
| All Production Countries | Australia, France, Hong Kong, Thailand |
| Original Language | Thai |
| Spoken Languages | English, Mandarin, Thai, Vietnamese |
| Production Companies | Sahamongkolfilm, Baa-Ram-Ewe, Golden Network Asia, TF1 International, The Weinstein Company |
| Runtime | 1h 51m |
| Release Date | August 11, 2005 |
| IMDb | tt0427954 |