Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- March 8, 1962
- Birthplace
- Bangkok, Thailand
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.
Filmography
The Brotherhood of Kaengkoi TBA
Director
- The Caterer
The Caterer TBA
Director
Morte Cucina 2026
Director, Writer
Two Little Soldiers 2020
Director
Gatlang : Happiness, Hardship and Other Stories 2018
Director
Samui Song 2018
Screenplay, Story, Director
The Master 2014
as Self
Southeast Asian Cinema – When the Rooster Crows 2014
Actor
The Life of Gravity 2014
Director
Paradoxocracy 2013
Director
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero 2011
Director
Headshot 2011
Screenplay, Director
The Man Who Fell to Earth (Remix) 2010
Director
- Sawasdee Bangkok
Sawasdee Bangkok 2009
Director
Nymph 2009
Director, Screenplay
Behind the Blur 2009
Actor
ตัวกู-ของกู 2008
as Self
Ploy 2007
Director, Screenplay
Invisible Waves 2006
Director
Total Bangkok 2006
Director
Digital Sam in Sam Saek 2006: Talk to Her 2006
Director
Twelve Twenty 2006
Director, Writer
Ghost Variety 2005
Thanks
Citizen Dog 2004
as Narrator (voice)
Electric Yakuza, Go to Hell! 2004
as Self
OK Baytong 2003
Editor
Last Life in the Universe 2003
Screenplay, Director
Transistor Love Story 2001
Director, Screenplay
6ixtynin9 1999
Producer, Director, Screenplay
Fun Bar Karaoke 1997
Screenplay, Director
Credits from TMDB.