Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- March 8, 1962, Bangkok, Thailand
- Movies
- 26
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.
Upcoming Pen-Ek Ratanaruang Movies
The Brotherhood of Kaengkoi
Release date TBA
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2014 | The Master | Self |
| 2014 | Southeast Asian Cinema – When the Rooster Crows | |
| 2009 | Behind the Blur | |
| 2008 | ตัวกู-ของกู | Self |
| 2004 | Citizen Dog | Narrator (voice) |
| 2004 | Electric Yakuza, Go to Hell! | Self |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 2026 | Morte Cucina | Director, Writer |
| 2020 | Two Little Soldiers | Director |
| 2018 | Gatlang : Happiness, Hardship and Other Stories | Director |
| 2018 | Samui Song | Screenplay, Director |
| 2014 | The Life of Gravity | Director |
| 2013 | Paradoxocracy | Director |
| 2011 | 60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero | Director |
| 2011 | Headshot | Director, Screenplay |
| 2010 | The Man Who Fell to Earth (Remix) | Director |
| 2009 | Sawasdee Bangkok | Director |
| 2009 | Nymph | Director, Screenplay |
| 2007 | Ploy | Director, Screenplay |
| 2006 | Invisible Waves | Director |
| 2006 | Twelve Twenty | Director, Writer |
| 2006 | Digital Sam in Sam Saek 2006: Talk to Her | Director |
| 2006 | Total Bangkok | Director |
| 2003 | Last Life in the Universe | Director, Screenplay |
| 2001 | Transistor Love Story | Director, Screenplay |
| 1999 | 6ixtynin9 | Director, Producer, Screenplay |
| 1997 | Fun Bar Karaoke | Screenplay, Director |
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