Somchai Asanajinda

Acting

Somchai Asanajinda

Born 1921-11-16 · 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.

Acting credits

Chard Pa Yong poster
NR

Plew, a professional killer, comes back to Thailand to find out who killed his father. He is forced by Bunpot to kill Slavut, but instead he accidentally helps Slavut get away. While on the run from Bunpot, he meets Jack; they decide to get out of the country. Later they come back to help one of his best friends and kill Bunpot and all of his men.

Chard Pa Yong

1979

Len Kub Fai poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Len Kub Fai

1990

A Time Between Time poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

A Time Between Time

1993

No artwork available
NR

The God of Death (Surasit Sattayawong) accidentally sends an innocent man (Luechai Natnat) to hell and, as compensation for his mistake, allows him to go back to the human world with special powers. However, all of the sin and treachery on Earth makes the man wish he were back in hell again.

Death Order

1959

No artwork available
NR

A married man falls in love with a beautiful tour guide but is unaware of her symbiotic relationship with a deadly cobra that has killed all of her previous suitors. This was remade at least two other times.

Snake Lady

1989

คุณครูที่รัก poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

คุณครูที่รัก

1974

Boonchu 5 poster
8.0

It'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.

Boonchu 5

1990

Krai Thong 2 poster
NR

Thai filmmaker Sompote Sands returns with a sequel to "Krai Thong", in which a man can turn himself into a horrific man-eating crocodile.

Krai Thong 2

1985

เพลงรักดอกไม้บาน poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

เพลงรักดอกไม้บาน

1979

Boonchu 2 poster
8.0

Boonchu 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.

Boonchu 2

1989

Brothers poster
NR

During their one-year prison sentence, Chop and Yai made up their minds to turn over a new leaf for the sake of their families, unlike Ying who declared he would return to a life of crime. The three went their separate ways. Chop returned home to find his family’s situation deteriorating. His mother had fallen ill, his younger brother Chai was a struggling scriptwriter with no sales, and his sister Chatcharee, who worked at a bar, had become the target of the bar owner, Damrongrit.

Brothers

1951

Egg Man poster
NR

Tong Tong is a stone man who searches for a new water source. With a companion that is Frank and Jom Jom, although Tong Tong will find things that search for intention But he feels happy with some things that are discovered on the way When he became a water king One day, Tong looked into the swamp. He then realized the painful truth that he had lost his identity.

Egg Man

1994

Boonchu 7 poster
8.0

Boonchu 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.

Boonchu 7

1993

The Boat House poster
8.0

Three 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.

The Boat House

1961

ผู้การเรือเร่ poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

ผู้การเรือเร่

1985

Dragon Killer poster
NR

Thai film director Kom Akkadej managed to perform a real coup by getting two of the legends of Hong Kong action cinema, Norman Tsui Siu Keung and David Chiang Dai Wai of the Shaw Brothers studio to star in this film.

Dragon Killer

1983

รักที่ต้องรอ poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

รักที่ต้องรอ

1984

เลขาคนใหม่ poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

เลขาคนใหม่

1983

ฟ้าเพียงดิน poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

ฟ้าเพียงดิน

1981

Baan poster
NR

A poor family in a society where no one cares. The dream of the head of the family to own a house has turned into pressure that causes the family members to suffer and struggle, leading them to question what the true meaning of the word “home” really is.

Baan

1987

Lued Suphan poster
NR

In 1765, at the end of the Ayutthaya period, at a village in Suphan Buri. The villagers live in peace. Despite the news of the war from Angwa, they thought that the Burmese army is not convenient for marching and make a war in flood season. With Unawareness of the Thai people, the Burmese army was able to easily invade Suphan Buri. The moon survives by disguising himself as a man, while many village women have been raped by the Burmese army. Duangjan's friend is dragged to Mangratho (Suthat Intranupakorn), a right-wing commander, but is saved by Mangrai (Pairoj Sangwaributr), a left-wing commander who is the son of Mang Mahasuranat (S. Asan Chinda), the general who commanded the army this time. Mangratho fights with Mangrai and is defeated, therefore he have a great malice toward Mangrai.

Lued Suphan

1979

Sai Sawat Yang Mai Sin poster
8.0

A father has got two children, i.e. a son Pinit spending his youth in bar and a daughter Thip, and has also adopted a boy Kriang. This latter, after doing successful studies, is promoted general director of the father's company. He also falls in love with Thip. Pinit is very jealous and promises to get a revenge. Once the father is dead, he starts to destabilize the couple.

Sai Sawat Yang Mai Sin

1982

Salween poster
6.8

The 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.

Salween

1993

Muen and Rid poster
7.1

The 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.

Muen and Rid

1994

Behind the camera

ดอกฟ้าและโดมผู้จองหอง poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

ดอกฟ้าและโดมผู้จองหอง

1981

No artwork available
NR

The God of Death (Surasit Sattayawong) accidentally sends an innocent man (Luechai Natnat) to hell and, as compensation for his mistake, allows him to go back to the human world with special powers. However, all of the sin and treachery on Earth makes the man wish he were back in hell again.

Death Order

1959

ไม่มีคำตอบจากสวรรค์ poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

ไม่มีคำตอบจากสวรรค์

1973

No artwork available
NR

One of Thai-Hong Kong co-production films during 1957-1962. The story was set in Thailand during the Sino-Japanese war. The Chinese overseas banker was mysteriously killed, then soon after the assassin was died a unnatural death. A series of subsequent incidents make the police suspect that it is related to the fake patriotic organization, Green Claw Gang.

Flame in Ashes

1958

Rak Kham Khob Fah (Fragment) poster
NR

A young Thai man falls in love with a Cambodian stage actress during a trip to Phnom Penh, and together they have a child. But tragedy strikes when he returns to Thailand and is forced to marry a woman chosen by his father.

Rak Kham Khob Fah (Fragment)

1971

Sureerat Long Hon poster
NR

A young heiress who inherited a large fortune must survive against jealous relatives. Things got complicated when she got an invisible fluid from a Western scientist.

Sureerat Long Hon

1961

Top Ghost poster
NR

Thai horror film.

Top Ghost

1960

Conqueror of Death poster
NR

Thai horror film.

Conqueror of Death

1963

The Spirit of Love poster
NR

Thai horror film.

The Spirit of Love

1970

Katanyu Prakasit poster
NR

After hearing his father's death related to the Green Claw Gang, a young banker leaves for Thailand in order to revenge.

Katanyu Prakasit

1983

The Hell of Tarutao poster
4.2

Tarutao Island is Thailand's version of Alcatraz. This jailbreak movie centers on the elaborate schemes of the beleaguered inmates, assisted by some of the native women, to flee the island prison to get their freedom of the mainland. To do this, they must escape brutal guards, and an ocean full of crocodiles.

The Hell of Tarutao

1976

No artwork available
NR

Nam investigates the death of her sister, which leads her on dangerous journey surrounded by shady characters.

Nong Bua Daeng

1973

ฝนเหนือ poster
NR

Two wandering delinquents caught between a big shot bandit's sinister plan and his target, the district chief. There comes bombastic actions mixing with their romance with both daughter of the district chief.

ฝนเหนือ

1970

แผ่นดินของเรา poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

แผ่นดินของเรา

1976