Person
Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
Directing · Born 1962-03-08 · Bangkok, Thailand
Biography
Pen-Ek Ratanaruang (Thai: เป็นเอก รัตนเรือง) A Thai film director and screenwriter best known for his arthouse work "Last Life in the Universe", and is considered to be one of Thai cinema's leading "new wave" auteurs, alongside Wisit Sasanatieng and Apichatpong Weerasethakul. He goes by the nickname Tom and is sometimes credited as Tom Pannet.
Known for
Morte Cucina
Director
Folklore
Director
6ixtynin9 the Series
Advertising Client
Total Bangkok
Director
ตัวกู-ของกู
Self
Last Life in the Universe
Director
Paradoxocracy
Director
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
Director
6ixtynin9
Director
Citizen Dog
Narrator (voice)
Filmography
- 2026Morte CucinaDirector
- 20236ixtynin9 the SeriesAdvertising Client
- 2020Two Little SoldiersDirector
- 2018Gatlang : Happiness, Hardship and Other StoriesDirector
- 2018FolkloreDirector
- 2018Samui SongScreenplay
- 2014The MasterSelf
- 2014Southeast Asian Cinema – When the Rooster Crows
- 2014The Life of GravityDirector
- 2013ParadoxocracyDirector
- 201160 Seconds of Solitude in Year ZeroDirector
- 2011HeadshotDirector
- 2010The Man Who Fell to Earth (Remix)Director
- 2009Sawasdee BangkokDirector
- 2009NymphDirector
- 2009Behind the Blur
- 2008ตัวกู-ของกูSelf
- 2007PloyDirector
- 2006Invisible WavesDirector
- 2006Twelve TwentyDirector
- 2006Digital Sam in Sam Saek 2006: Talk to HerDirector
- 2006Total BangkokDirector
- 2005Ghost VarietyThanks
- 2004Citizen DogNarrator (voice)
- 2003OK BaytongEditor
- 2003Last Life in the UniverseDirector
- 2001Transistor Love StoryDirector
- 19996ixtynin9Director
- 1997Fun Bar KaraokeScreenplay
- —The CatererDirector
- —The Brotherhood of KaengkoiDirector
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