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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.
Filmography
Movies and shows, newest first
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2026
Morte Cucina
Movie Writer
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2023
6ixtynin9 the Series
TV show Advertising Client
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2020
Two Little Soldiers
Movie Director
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2018
Gatlang : Happiness, Hardship and Other Stories
Movie Director
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2018
Folklore
TV show Director
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2018
Samui Song
Movie Screenplay
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2014
The Master
Movie Self
- 2014
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2014
The Life of Gravity
Movie Director
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2013
Paradoxocracy
Movie Director
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2011
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
Movie Director
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2011
Headshot
Movie Director
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2010
The Man Who Fell to Earth (Remix)
Movie Director
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2009
Sawasdee Bangkok
Movie Director
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2009
Nymph
Movie Director
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2009
Behind the Blur
Movie
More credits
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2008
ตัวกู-ของกู
Movie Self
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2007
Ploy
Movie Director
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2006
Invisible Waves
Movie Director
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2006
Digital Sam in Sam Saek 2006: Talk to Her
Movie Director
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2006
Twelve Twenty
Movie Director
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2006
Total Bangkok
Movie Director
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2005
Ghost Variety
Movie Thanks
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2004
Citizen Dog
Movie Narrator (voice)
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2004
Electric Yakuza, Go to Hell!
Movie Self
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2003
OK Baytong
Movie Editor
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2003
Last Life in the Universe
Movie Director
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2001
Transistor Love Story
Movie Director
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1999
6ixtynin9
Movie Director
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1997
Fun Bar Karaoke
Movie Director
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The Caterer
Movie Director
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The Brotherhood of Kaengkoi
Movie Director