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The Great Challenge is a french film of genre Drama directed by Julien Seri released in USA on 1 august 2006 with Élodie Yung

The Great Challenge (2004)

The Great Challenge
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Released in USA 1 august 2006
Length 1h35
Directed by
OriginFrance
Genres Drama,    Action,    Adventure
Rating46% 2.30952.30952.30952.30952.3095

Les fils du vent ("The Sons of the Wind", also known as The Great Challenge and Sons of the Wind: Bangkok Ninjas ) is a 2004 French action film featuring the Yamakasi. It is a semi-sequel to the Luc Besson produced 2001 film Yamakasi.

Synopsis

Six parkour adepts (the Yamakasi without Châu Belle Dinh) open a gym in Bangkok. When the new gym starts to attract the area's kids, a local gang feels challenged. Their Eurasian leader Kien (Châu Belle Dinh) attacks the foreigners while they are having some extra training in a scaffold. They battle until police arrives. Both groups can scarcely escape. Logan (Charles Perrière) runs hereby into Kien's only sibling, his sister Tsu (Elodie Yung). Logan and Tsu, who obviously feel a mutual attraction, are right from the start about to become a modern version of "Romeo and Juliet".

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