Chattapong Pantana-Angkul as Saming Sibtid.Petchtai Wongkamlao as George/Humlae (as Mum Jokemok in ending credits).Tony Jaa as Ting from Ban Nong Pradu Village.Humlae's ashes, carried by an ordained monk, arrives into the village in a procession on an elephant's back while the villagers and Muay Lek celebrate the return of Ong Bak's head. The head of Ong-Bak is restored in Ban Nong Pradu. Humlae gives Ting the Ong-Bak head, and with his dying breath, asks him to look after Muay Lek and make sure she graduates from college. The giant Buddha statue head suddenly falls, crushing Komtuan to death and critically injuring Humlae. Before the crime lord attempts to destroy the Ong-Bak head with a sledgehammer, Humlae jumps to protect it, taking the brunt of the hammer blows. Ting defeats the remaining thugs and Saming, but is shot by Komtuan. Ting and Humlae subdue the thugs and head to a mountain cave, where Komtuan's men are decapitating a giant Buddha statue. After the fight, Komtuan reneges on his promise to release Muay Lek and return the head, and he orders his henchmen to kill the trio. Ting is forced to throw the match against the drug-enhanced Saming, and Humlae throws in the towel. The chase ends at a port in the Chao Phraya River, where Ting discovers Komtuan's cache of stolen Buddha statues submerged underwater.Īfter the statues are recovered by local police, Komtuan sends his thugs to kidnap Muay Lek and tells Humlae to ask Ting to fight his bodyguard Saming near the Thai- Burmese border in exchange for Muay Lek and the Ong-Bak head. The trio find Don's hideout, triggering a lengthy tuk-tuk chase. They return to the bar, where Ting wins the respect of the crowd after defeating three opponents consecutively. Ting fights off most of the thugs and helps Humlae and Muay Lek escape in exchange for helping him find Don. The next day, Humlae and Muay Lek are chased all over town by drug dealer Peng and his gang after a botched baccarat game scam at an illegal street gambling booth. It is discovered that Don had stolen Ong-Bak's head to sell to Komtuan, who sees no value in it and orders him to dispose of it. His extraordinary skill grabs the attention of Komtuan, a grey-haired crime lord who uses a wheelchair and needs an electrolarynx to speak. Ting tracks down Humlae and gets his money back after stunning the crowd by knocking out the champion in the ring with one kick. Reluctant to help Ting, Humlae steals Ting's money and bets all of it in an underground fighting tournament at a bar on Khaosan Road. Humlae and his friend Muay Lek are street-bike racing hustlers who make a living out of conning yaba dealers. Upon arriving in Bangkok with a bagful of money donated by his village, Ting meets up with his cousin Humlae, who has dyed his hair blond and begun calling himself "George".
His only lead is Don, a drug dealer who attempted to buy an amulet in Nong Pradu one day earlier. Ting, a villager extremely skilled in Muay Thai, volunteers to travel to Bangkok to recover the stolen head of Ong-Bak. The village falls in despair after thieves from Bangkok decapitate the statue and take the head with them. In the village of Ban Nong Pradu in rural northeastern Thailand lies an ancient Buddha statue named Ong-Bak.