EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: ROUGH CUT - NO NARRATION<br/> <br />STORY: Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn is continuing to defend his new film "Only God Forgives" as he brings the violent film to America for its U.S. release.<br/> <br />The thriller, set in the Bangkok underworld of brothels and fight clubs came under attack at the Cannes film festival in May for its bloodletting.<br/> <br />The film, written by Refn, tells the story of Julian, an American fugitive played by Canadian Ryan Gosling, who runs a boxing club in the Thai capital as a front for a drug business.<br/> <br />After his brother is murdered for killing a prostitute, his gangster mother played by a chain-smoking, peroxide blonde Kristin Scott Thomas arrives demanding the heads of his killers, including a mysterious policeman handy with a sword.<br/> <br />As the family seeks revenge, the God-like policeman decides their fate, with blood splattered throughout the film that is sparse on dialogue but heavy on imagery with many scenes set in claust