
Somchai Asanajinda
Actor · 1921 – 1993 · Bangkok, Thailand
Somchai Asanajinda, mostly known as Sor Asanajinda, was a famous Thai film director (he has directed more than 70 movies) and also a famous Thai actor (he has played in more than 80 movies). He was also a writer and journalist. Following the uprising of October 14 1973, commercial filmmakers like Sor Asanajinda put anti-dictatorship messages in his action movies. He was named a National Artist of Thailand in year 1990.
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Movie8.0ComedyRomanceBoonchu did not pass the entrance exam for the university so he went back home. With the help of Head Monk at Suphan, Boonchu was able to return to Bangkok to prepare for his next entrance exam.
Movie8.0ComedyRomanceIt's Boonchu's second year in college and he tries to impress his girlfriend by running for University President to help those poor students and reestablish new rules and conditions of the scholarship.
MovieHorrorActionThai filmmaker Sompote Sands returns with a sequel to "Krai Thong", in which a man can turn himself into a horrific man-eating crocodile.
Movie8.0DramaRomanceThree men with big dreams - a cop, a boxer, and a singer - collide over the heart of the beautiful daughter of a house boat owner in this tale.
Movie6.8WarActionThe border of Burma and Thailand is lawless place, where people live and die by the law of the gun. Into this situation comes a young police lieutenant, intent on reforming the rough and rowdy local police force along the Salween River.
Movie8.0ComedyRomanceBoonchu and Molee are getting married. But they both have a special task to accomplish as to prove their true love to Manee, Molee's sister.
Movie7.1DramaThe true story of Muen, a Thai woman living in the 1800s under the rule of King Mongkut. At that time, women had no rights. Wives and daughters were bought and sold as if they were cattle. Muen is regarded as being the first Thai woman to stand up for women's rights.
Movie7.0DramaRomanceIn 1936 in rural Bang Kapi, among the rice fields, Kwan and Riam, the children of rival village chiefs, fall in love. Riam's father disapproves of the relationship, and wants to marry her off to Joi, the son of a wealthy local nobleman. Riam's father, Joi and some other men go to confront Kwan and find him on the spirit-house island with Riam.
Movie3.6DramaHistoryA courageous teacher leads a group against a real estate developer who is determined to evict hundreds to make way for a construction project.