Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
Known for: Directing
Born: March 8, 1962
Place of birth: Bangkok, Thailand
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.
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Filmography
30 movies · 2 TV shows, newest first
3.8
Morte Cucina
2026
5.8
6ixtynin9 the Series
2023
NR
Two Little Soldiers
2020
6.0
Gatlang : Happiness, Hardship and Other Stories
2018
6.5
Folklore
2018
5.8
Samui Song
2018
7.4
The Master
2014
5.0
Southeast Asian Cinema – When the Rooster Crows
2014
3.8
The Life of Gravity
2014
4.6
Paradoxocracy
2013
4.2
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
2011
6.1
Headshot
2011
5.0
The Man Who Fell to Earth (Remix)
20103.2
Sawasdee Bangkok
2009
6.0
Nymph
2009
4.0
Behind the Blur
2009
NR
ตัวกู-ของกู
2008
6.0
Ploy
2007
5.9
Invisible Waves
2006
5.5
Twelve Twenty
2006
6.5
Digital Sam in Sam Saek 2006: Talk to Her
2006
NR
Total Bangkok
2006
6.2
Ghost Variety
2005
6.8
Citizen Dog
2004
8.5
Electric Yakuza, Go to Hell!
2004
6.4
OK Baytong
2003
7.1
Last Life in the Universe
2003
6.9
Transistor Love Story
2001
6.8
6ixtynin9
1999
5.8
Fun Bar Karaoke
1997NR
The Caterer
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NR
The Brotherhood of Kaengkoi
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