Pen-Ek Ratanaruang

Directing

Pen-Ek Ratanaruang

Born 8 March 1962 · Bangkok, Thailand · 64

Pen-Ek Ratanaruang (Thai: เป็นเอก รัตนเรือง) is 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

Highlights

Last Life in the Universe2003 · Film · Director
6ixtynin91999 · Film · Director
Folklore2018 · Series · Director
Headshot2011 · Film · Director
Ploy2007 · Film · Director
Transistor Love Story2001 · Film · Director

Filmography

Movies

21 films

Morte Cucina2026 · Film · Writer
Two Little Soldiers2020 · Film · Director
Gatlang : Happiness, Hardship and Other Stories2018 · Film · Director
Samui Song2018 · Film · Screenplay
Southeast Asian Cinema – When the Rooster Crows2014 · Film
The Life of Gravity2014 · Film · Director
Paradoxocracy2013 · Film · Director
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero2011 · Film · Director
Headshot2011 · Film · Director
The Man Who Fell to Earth (Remix)2010 · Film · Director
Nymph2009 · Film · Director
Behind the Blur2009 · Film
Ploy2007 · Film · Director
Invisible Waves2006 · Film · Director
Twelve Twenty2006 · Film · Director
Digital Sam in Sam Saek 2006: Talk to Her2006 · Film · Director
Total Bangkok2006 · Film · Director
Last Life in the Universe2003 · Film · Director
Transistor Love Story2001 · Film · Director
6ixtynin91999 · Film · Director
Fun Bar Karaoke1997 · Film · Director

Filmography

Series

2 shows

6ixtynin9 the Series2023 · Series · Advertising Client
Folklore2018 · Series · Director