Tanit Jitnukul ( Thai: ธนิตย์ จิตนุกูล, born in 1956 in Songkhla Province, Thailand) is a Thai film director,

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and

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. Among his films is the 2000 historical battle epic, '' Bang Rajan''. His nickname is "Pued" (ปืีด).

Biography

Tanit graduated from Siam Vocational School. He started in the movie business as a film-poster artist. In 1985 he was the co-director on ''Suem Noi Noi Galon Mark Noi'' ("Happy Go Lucky") with Adirek Wattaleela, better known in Thailand simply as "Uncle". Uncle would go on to produce ''Bangrajan''. Tanit made his name doing historical battle epics and directing a string of them; ''Bang Rajan'', ''Legend of the Warlord'' and ''Sema: Warrior of Ayutthaya''. He has however worked in many genres including horrors (''Art of the Devil'' and ''Narok''), crime-action (''102 Bangkok Robbery'') and comedy (''Andaman Girl''). He won best director honors at the Thailand National Film Awards for '' Bang Rajan''. The film was also screened at the 2000 Fantasia Festival, where it was placed second in the international competition. ''Bang Rajan'' was later "presented" by

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in a theatrical release in the United States.

Filmography

Director

* ''Suem Noi Noi Galon Mark Noi''(''Happy-Go-Lucky'') (

1985 The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** The Internet's Domain Name System is created. ** Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community as a result of a ...

) * ''Happy-Go-Lucky 2'' (

1986 The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. **Spain and Portugal ente ...

) * ''Magic Moon'' (

1991 File:1991 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Boris Yeltsin, elected as Russia's first president, waves the new flag of Russia after the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, orchestrated by Soviet hardliners; Mount Pinatubo erupts in the Phil ...

) * ''Love Affaire'' (

1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of t ...

) * ''Seua Jone Phan Seua'' (''Crime King'') (

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...

) * ''Hello Countryside'' (

1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shootin ...

) * '' Bang Rajan'' (

2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from ...

) * ''Kun pan'' (''Legend of the Warlord'') (

2002 File:2002 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and her daughter Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon die; East Timor gains East Timor independence, indepe ...

) * ''Khunsuk'' (''Sema: Warrior of Ayutthaya'') (

2003 File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry into Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an epidemic in China, and was a precursor to SARS-CoV-2; A des ...

) * ''Khon len khong'' (''Art of the Devil'') * ''102 piit krungthep plon'' (''102 Bangkok Robbery'') (

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...

) * ''The Lord of Ayuthaya'' (''Jao Tak'') (2004; direct-to-video) * ''Jee'' (''Andaman Girl'') (

2005 File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris was discovered in ...

)) * ''Narok'' (''Hell'') (2005) * ''Hak yae'' (''Black Night'', segment ''The Lost Memory'') (

2006 File:2006 Events Collage V1.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2006 Winter Olympics open in Turin; Twitter is founded and launched by Jack Dorsey; The Nintendo Wii is released; Montenegro 2006 Montenegrin independence referendum, votes to declare ...

) * ''Ghost in Law'' (2008; co-director) * ''First Flight'' (2008) * ''Bang Rajan 2'' (

2010 File:2010 Events Collage New.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2010 Chile earthquake was one of the strongest recorded in history; The Eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland disrupts air travel in Europe; A scene from the opening ceremony of ...

) * '' Ghost Day'' (2012)

Producer

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'' (

2007 File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple's first iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a gas station, killing almost 200 people; Former Pakistani Prime Minister of Pakistan, Pr ...

) * ''Jee'' (''Andaman Girl'') (

) * ''Narok'' (''Hell'') (2005) * ''14 tula, songkram prachachon'' (''The Moonhunter'') (

2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ...

) * '' The Red Eagle'' (2010) * '' Ghost Day'' (2012)

Screenwriter

* '' Bang Rajan'' (

) * ''Hak yae'' (''Black Night'') (

) * '' Ghost Day'' (2012)

Actor

* '' Sum muepuen'' (''

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'') (

) * '' Me ... Myself'' (2007)

External links

*
Tanit Jitnukul at the Thai Film Database
1956 births Living people Tanit Jitnukul Tanit Jitnukul Tanit Jitnukul Tanit Jitnukul {{Thailand-film-director-stub