Pen-Ek Ratanaruang

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1962-03-08 (63 years old)

Place of Birth

Bangkok, Thailand

Pen-Ek Ratanaruang

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.

Production

2003

1999

6ixtynin9

as Director

1999

6ixtynin9

as Producer

2007

Ploy

as Director

2006

Invisible Waves

as Director

1997

Fun Bar Karaoke

as Director

1997

Fun Bar Karaoke

as Screenplay

2009

Nymph

as Director

2009

Nymph

as Screenplay

2011

Headshot

as Director

2011

Headshot

as Screenplay

2001

2009

Sawasdee Bangkok

as Director

2006

Twelve Twenty

as Director

2013

Paradoxocracy

as Director

2018

Samui Song

as Screenplay

2018

Samui Song

as Story

1999

6ixtynin9

as Screenplay

2007

Ploy

as Screenplay

2018

Folklore: Pob

as Screenplay

2014

2003

OK Baytong

as Editor

2001

-

The Caterer

as Director

2018

Samui Song

as Director

2005

Ghost Variety

as Thanks

-

Morte Cucina

as Writer

-

Morte Cucina

as Director

2018

Folklore: Pob

as Director

2006

Twelve Twenty

as Writer

2020

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