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Pen-Ek Ratanaruang

Director, Writer, Actor, Producer, Editor, Additional CreditsBorn March 8, 1962 (64 years)
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.

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Headshot
  • Southeast Asian Cinema: When the Rooster Crows

Known For

  • Last Life in the Universe
  • 6ixtynin9
  • Ploy
  • Invisible Waves
  • Headshot
  • Transistor Love Story
  • 6ixtynin9 The Series
  • Nymph
  • Samui Song
  • Fun Bar Karaoke
  • Folklore
  • The Life of Gravity
  • Digital Sam in Sam Saek 2006: Talk to Her
  • Morte Cucina
  • Food Lore
  • Southeast Asian Cinema: When the Rooster Crows

Pen-Ek Ratanaruang Filmography

2025
2023
6ixtynin9 The Series (TV Series) · as Screenplay
2018
Folklore (TV Series)
2017
Samui Song · as Screenplay
2011
Headshot · as Screenplay
2009
Sawasdee Bangkok · as Screenplay
2009
Nymph · as Screenplay
2007
Ploy · as Screenplay
2003
Last Life in the Universe · as Screenplay
2001
Transistor Love Story · as Screenplay
1999
6ixtynin9 · as Screenplay
1997
Fun Bar Karaoke · as Screenplay

2023
6ixtynin9 The Series (TV Series) · as Advertising Client
2014
2004
Citizen Dog · as Narrator (voice)

2014
The Master · as Self
1997
Tracks (TV Series) · as Self

1997
Fun Bar Karaoke · as Production Designer

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