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Nonzee Nimibutr is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Producer and Editor Thailandais born on 18 december 1962 at Nonthaburi (Thailande)

Nonzee Nimibutr

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Nationality Thailande
Birth 18 december 1962 (61 years) at Nonthaburi (Thailande)

Nonzee Nimibutr (Thai: นนทรีย์ นิมิบุตร, RTGS: Nonsi Nimibut; born in 1962 in Nonthaburi Province, Thailand) is a Thai film director, film producer and screenwriter. Best known for his ghost thriller, Nang Nak, he is generally credited as the leader among a "New Wave" of Thai filmmakers that also includes Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, Wisit Sasanatieng and Apichatpong Weerasethakul.

Biography

Education
Nonzee is a relative of Lieutenant General Phachoen Nimitbutr (เผชิญ นิมิบุตร), Director of the Signal Department of the Royal Thai Army and the founder of Thailand's first television station, Army TV Channel 5. Nonzee graduated with a bachelor of arts in visual communication design from the Faculty of Decorative Arts at Silpakorn University in 1987. Classmates included Wisit Sasanatieng and production designer Ek Iemchuen. He started his career as a director of television commercials and music videos.


First films
He made his feature-film debut with 1997's Dang Bireley's and Young Gangsters, with a screenplay by Wisit Sasanatieng. The story was set in 1956 in Bangkok and follows the adventures of a gang of young criminals, with the action showing the influence of John Woo films. It was named best picture at the Thailand National Film Awards and was nominated for a Dragons and Tigers Award at the Vancouver International Film Festival.

His next film was Nang Nak, a thriller based on a popular Thai ghost story, also scripted by Wisit. A famous ghost story that has been depicted in many Thai films and television series, the story is about a husband comes home from war and takes up living with his wife and newborn son who, unbeknownst to him, have died while he was away. The moodily framed horror film won numerous awards, including best picture at the Thailand National Film Awards.

Both Young Gangsters and Nang Nak were hits at the box office and were credited with reinvigorating the Thai film industry.


Pan-Asian production
With his third film, Jan Dara, Nonzee began a trend of pan-Asian film production in the Thai industry, bringing in Hong Kong actress Christy Chung to star in the erotic drama. He also sought funding from studios outside Thailand.



Ahead of its release, Jan Dara was controversial because its sexual subject matter, involving incest, rape and abortion, tested the bounds of Thailand's 1930 Censorship Code. The film was released with the board's cuts for the film's commercial run in Thailand, but it was available uncut for film festivals.

Nonzee also became quite active as a producer, putting his name on such films as Bangkok Dangerous by the Pang Brothers; Tears of the Black Tiger by Wisit Sasanatieng; the historical battle epic, Bangrajan by Thanit Jitnukul and Pen-Ek Ratanaruang's Monrak Transistor.

He co-founded his own production company, Cinemasia, with his production partner, Duangkamol Limcharoen. She died in 2003.

Continuing on his path of pan-Asian production, Nonzee initiated the horror trilogy, Three, in which he and two other directors, Hong Kong's Peter Chan and Korean director Kim Ji-Woon, each directed a segment.


Recent work
While keeping busy as a producer, he directed 2003's OK Baytong, a topical, contemporary drama about a young man who must leave the Buddhist monkhood and go to Muslim-dominated southern Thailand to attend to the affairs of his sister, who was killed in a train bombing.

In 2005, he directed a short film, The Ceiling for the Asian Film Academy, in conjunction with the Pusan International Film Festival. The 18-minute, English-language film starred South Korean actors is the story of a young writer who climbs into the crawlspace above her apartment and spies on the woman living next door.

His next film, Queens of Langkasuka, is an epic historical-fantasy involving pirates and three princesses who must protect their realm, Langkasuka. The film was originally to be called Queens of Pattani, but the name was changed to avoid possible political overtones stemming from the South Thailand insurgency and Pattani separatism. Shooting began in August 2006. The film stars Jarunee Suksawat, Ananda Everingham from Shutter, Dan Chupong from Kerd ma lui, Jesdaporn Pholdee, Winai Kraibutr and Sorapong Chatree.

Another film mentioned as being in development by Nonzee is a ghost thriller, Toyol, a Singaporean co-production about a pair of Hong Kong children who move with their father to Bangkok and are introduced to a stepmother they do not like, in a house that has some problems, namely, the toyol.

He's also produced Noo Hin: The Movie, a live-action adaptation of the popular Thai comic book (or manga) by Padung Kraisri, about a plucky Isan woman who works as a maid in a middle class urban Thai home.

In 2008, Nonzee became the fifth filmmaker to be honored with the Thailand Culture Ministry's Silpathorn Award, an honor previously bestowed on Pen-ek Ratanaruang, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Wisit Sasanatieng and Thunska Pansittivorakul.

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Filmography of Nonzee Nimibutr (16 films)

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Actor

Dang Bireley's and Young Gangsters, 1h50
Directed by Nonzee Nimibutr
Origin Thailande
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Jesdaporn Pholdee, Suppakorn Kitsuwan, Nonzee Nimibutr
Roles Director
Rating73% 3.6663453.6663453.6663453.6663453.666345
Dang, the son of a prostitute, growing up in 1950s Thailand, compensates for his inferiority complex by boosting up his ego. At the age of 13, he killed a man who was beating his mother. By age 16, he had dropped out of school and started his own protection racket. With his right-hand man Lam Sing, Dang is highly protective of Piak, and is also friends with Pu Bottle Bomb and Pu's sidekick Dum.

Director

Timeline
Timeline (2014)

Directed by Nonzee Nimibutr
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors James Jirayu Tangsrisuk
Rating65% 3.2917953.2917953.2917953.2917953.291795
Tan (Jirayu Tangsrisuk) is a teenager who wanted to experience the outside world. He lives in Chiang Mai with his mother but he is bored with his life, therefore he determines to study in Bangkok.
Legend of the Tsunami Warrior, 2h27
Directed by Nonzee Nimibutr
Origin Thailande
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Pirate films
Actors Ananda Everingham, Jesdaporn Pholdee, Dan Chupong, Sorapong Chatree, Suppakorn Kitsuwan, Porntip Papanai
Rating56% 2.808262.808262.808262.808262.80826
Queen Hijau (The Green Queen) of Pattani faces overthrow by the rebel Prince Rawai, who is allied with pirate captain Black Raven. The pirates attempt to capture a huge cannon built by Dutchman Janis Bree and Chinese inventor Lim Kiam, but the Dutch ship carrying the cannon blows up and the cannons sink into the sea.
OK Baytong
OK Baytong (2003)

Directed by Nonzee Nimibutr
Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion, Films about Buddhism
Rating69% 3.498463.498463.498463.498463.49846
Tum is a young man who has been a monk living in a Buddhist temple in Thailand since he was 5 years old. But after hearing that his sister has been killed in an attack on a train by insurgents, he decides to leave the monastery and make his way to southern Thailand where his sister ran a beauty salon in a town called Betong in a district in Yala Province on the border with Malaysia.
Three
Three (2002)
, 2h7
Directed by Kim Jee-woon, Peter Ho-sun Chan, Nonzee Nimibutr
Origin Coree du sud
Genres Horror
Themes Ghost films
Actors Leon Lai, Eugenia Yuan, Jeong Bo-seok, Kim Hye-soo, Eric Tsang, John Shum
Rating60% 3.049273.049273.049273.049273.04927
Trois Histoires de l'au-delà est en fait (comme son nom l'indique) trois histoires en un seul film. On a donc droit à trois visions différentes sur l'au-delà et le monde des ectoplasmes.
Jan Dara
Jan Dara (2001)
, 2h
Directed by Nonzee Nimibutr
Origin Thailande
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about families, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Christy Chung
Rating60% 3.04933.04933.04933.04933.0493
Jan is a boy growing up in 1930s Siam in a wealthy, dysfunctional family where sex has a huge impact on everyone's lives. Jan Dara is viewed by his father, Khun Luang, as cursed, since his mother died giving birth to him. The abusive Luang is a womanizer who has sex with many women in front of the portrait of his late wife.
Nang Nak
Nang Nak (1999)
, 1h40
Directed by Nonzee Nimibutr
Origin Thailande
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantastic, Horror, Romance
Themes Ghost films
Actors Intira Jaroenpura
Rating64% 3.2473353.2473353.2473353.2473353.247335
In a rural village west of Bangkok, Mek (Winai Kraibutr) is conscripted and sent to fight in the Siamese-Vietnamese War (1831-1834). He has to leave behind his pregnant teenage wife, Nak (Intira Jaroenpura). Mek is wounded and barely survives. He eventually returns home to his beloved wife and their child.
Dang Bireley's and Young Gangsters, 1h50
Directed by Nonzee Nimibutr
Origin Thailande
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Jesdaporn Pholdee, Suppakorn Kitsuwan, Nonzee Nimibutr
Rating73% 3.6663453.6663453.6663453.6663453.666345
Dang, the son of a prostitute, growing up in 1950s Thailand, compensates for his inferiority complex by boosting up his ego. At the age of 13, he killed a man who was beating his mother. By age 16, he had dropped out of school and started his own protection racket. With his right-hand man Lam Sing, Dang is highly protective of Piak, and is also friends with Pu Bottle Bomb and Pu's sidekick Dum.

Scriptwriter

Timeline
Timeline (2014)

Directed by Nonzee Nimibutr
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors James Jirayu Tangsrisuk
Roles Story
Rating65% 3.2917953.2917953.2917953.2917953.291795
Tan (Jirayu Tangsrisuk) is a teenager who wanted to experience the outside world. He lives in Chiang Mai with his mother but he is bored with his life, therefore he determines to study in Bangkok.
OK Baytong
OK Baytong (2003)

Directed by Nonzee Nimibutr
Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion, Films about Buddhism
Roles Story
Rating69% 3.498463.498463.498463.498463.49846
Tum is a young man who has been a monk living in a Buddhist temple in Thailand since he was 5 years old. But after hearing that his sister has been killed in an attack on a train by insurgents, he decides to leave the monastery and make his way to southern Thailand where his sister ran a beauty salon in a town called Betong in a district in Yala Province on the border with Malaysia.
Three
Three (2002)
, 2h7
Directed by Kim Jee-woon, Peter Ho-sun Chan, Nonzee Nimibutr
Origin Coree du sud
Genres Horror
Themes Ghost films
Actors Leon Lai, Eugenia Yuan, Jeong Bo-seok, Kim Hye-soo, Eric Tsang, John Shum
Roles Story
Rating60% 3.049273.049273.049273.049273.04927
Trois Histoires de l'au-delà est en fait (comme son nom l'indique) trois histoires en un seul film. On a donc droit à trois visions différentes sur l'au-delà et le monde des ectoplasmes.
Jan Dara
Jan Dara (2001)
, 2h
Directed by Nonzee Nimibutr
Origin Thailande
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about families, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Christy Chung
Rating60% 3.04933.04933.04933.04933.0493
Jan is a boy growing up in 1930s Siam in a wealthy, dysfunctional family where sex has a huge impact on everyone's lives. Jan Dara is viewed by his father, Khun Luang, as cursed, since his mother died giving birth to him. The abusive Luang is a womanizer who has sex with many women in front of the portrait of his late wife.

Producer

Timeline
Timeline (2014)

Directed by Nonzee Nimibutr
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors James Jirayu Tangsrisuk
Roles Producer
Rating65% 3.2917953.2917953.2917953.2917953.291795
Tan (Jirayu Tangsrisuk) is a teenager who wanted to experience the outside world. He lives in Chiang Mai with his mother but he is bored with his life, therefore he determines to study in Bangkok.
Legend of the Tsunami Warrior, 2h27
Directed by Nonzee Nimibutr
Origin Thailande
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Pirate films
Actors Ananda Everingham, Jesdaporn Pholdee, Dan Chupong, Sorapong Chatree, Suppakorn Kitsuwan, Porntip Papanai
Roles Executive Producer
Rating56% 2.808262.808262.808262.808262.80826
Queen Hijau (The Green Queen) of Pattani faces overthrow by the rebel Prince Rawai, who is allied with pirate captain Black Raven. The pirates attempt to capture a huge cannon built by Dutchman Janis Bree and Chinese inventor Lim Kiam, but the Dutch ship carrying the cannon blows up and the cannons sink into the sea.
Noo Hin: The Movie, 1h42
Genres Comedy
Actors Runglawan Thonahongsa
Roles Producer
Rating55% 2.7849552.7849552.7849552.7849552.784955
Noo Hin is a young woman living in Ubon Ratchathani in Northeast Thailand, and as the story opens, she is hunting for something to eat, and she spots a lizard (an animated character), which she chases throughout the countryside, causing a stampede of water buffalo and disrupting a village fair.