Sompote Sands

Sompote Sands

Birth : 2018-05-01, Samut Prakan, Thailand

History

Founder of the Thai film production company, Chaiyo Productions, Sompote Saengduenchai, better known as Sompote Sands (born 1941) is a Thai film director. He is best known for directing several Thai films such as The 6 Ultra Brothers vs. the Monster Army, Hanuman and the Five Riders, the 1980 cult classic Crocodile, Phra Rod Meree and the 1985 children's film Magic Lizard. He was a major part of the licensing rights dispute of Ultraman outside of Japan, claiming to have co-ownership of Ultraman outside of Japan. His son Sompote Tako is also a director of similar films.

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Sompote Sands

Movies

Shin Killer Crocodile: Akai kiba
Special Effects Supervisor
A group of Japanese scientists goes to a small isolated village in the Thai mountains. A legend tells that the place is cursed, but also that a mysterious jewel would have been placed a long time ago in a sanctuary. After a long expedition, they finally discover a temple, located not far from a huge waterfall ... from which emerges a gigantic crocodile, the guardian of the treasure.
Magic Lizard
Producer
After an opening sequence in which we watch Magic Lizard roller-skating around the city to the accompaniment of 80s dance music, recycled footage from the earlier Giant and Jumbo A shows us some space aliens landing in a pink flying saucer. One of the aliens steals into a cave beneath a temple where the hapless but lovable Magic Lizard appears to be responsible for guarding some kind of treasure. After threatening Magic Lizard with a light saber, the alien makes off with a crystal of some sort, after which Magic Lizard starts with the high-pitched nattering and spazzing out that will characterize his behavior for the rest of the film. He runs to Yuk Wud Jaeng, the demon-like living statue previously featured in both Giant and Jumbo A and Tah Tien and pleads for his help. Yuk Wud Jaeng takes off into the heavens, not to be seen again for some time.
Space Warriors 2000
Director
Arriving home from a business trip, a father gives his son Ultraman and Gomora toys. Absolute insanity ensues.
Krai Thong 2
Director
Thai filmmaker Sompote Sands returns with a sequel to "Krai Thong", in which a man can turn himself into a horrific man-eating crocodile.
Magic Lizard
Director
After an opening sequence in which we watch Magic Lizard roller-skating around the city to the accompaniment of 80s dance music, recycled footage from the earlier Giant and Jumbo A shows us some space aliens landing in a pink flying saucer. One of the aliens steals into a cave beneath a temple where the hapless but lovable Magic Lizard appears to be responsible for guarding some kind of treasure. After threatening Magic Lizard with a light saber, the alien makes off with a crystal of some sort, after which Magic Lizard starts with the high-pitched nattering and spazzing out that will characterize his behavior for the rest of the film. He runs to Yuk Wud Jaeng, the demon-like living statue previously featured in both Giant and Jumbo A and Tah Tien and pleads for his help. Yuk Wud Jaeng takes off into the heavens, not to be seen again for some time.
The Noble War
Director
The film is a dramatization of parts of the Ramakien, the Thai national epic that was adapted from the Hindu epic the Ramayana.
Crocodile Therakwad
Director
A story about a man that can transform from human to crocodile and has magical powers that make people adore him.
Phra Rot-Meri
Director
Twelve daughters are abandoned by their parents, who are too poor to educate so many children. The twelve daughters are rescued by a "Yak" woman who promises to take care about them as her own daughters. She deceived them and force them to drink a potion that transform the young girls into beautiful maidens.
Legend of the Crocodile
Director
A giant crocodile wanders around a Thai village and devours its residents.
Crocodile
Director
A giant crocodile is killing and frightening people living nearby rivers. Two men, whose wives and daughter have been killed by the crocodile, decide to chase and eliminate it.
Crocodile
Director
A giant crocodile is terrorizing Thai villagers. A group of adventurers set out by boat to track it down and kill it.
Computer Superman
Director
Four boys are born with strange features, one has very big ears, one has a tail, one has very big hands, one has a big nose. Becoming friends, they spend most of their time playing and sleeping. Becoming adults, their fathers banish them from the village as they are doing nothing to help the community. Just as they leave, a local mafia gang threatens the villagers to get help to cultivate opium and to provide food for their members. Meanwhile one lady wants to marry one of the boys but wishes that he can remove his tail. He refuses. At night time, while he is sleeping, she cuts his tail. He flees away but looses a lot of blood. A crazy scientific professor finds and decides to save him by using technology. He becomes the Six Million Baht Man ! He then gathers his three other friends to free the villagers from the mafia gang.
The 6 Ultra Brothers vs. the Monster Army
Director
The Hindu god Hanuman teams up with Ultraman and his brethren against familiar Ultra-foes in this rare Ultraman movie co-produced in Thailand.
Hanuman and the 5 Kamen Riders
Director
The Hindu god Hanuman teams up with Kamen Rider and his brethren against familiar foes in this rare Thai bootleg Kamen Rider film.
Jumborg Ace & Giant
Director
This film teams the Japanese superhero Jumborg Ace with a giant stone idol called Yuk Wud Jaeng, simply known as "Giant" against Ace's own enemies.
Tah Tien
Director
Tah Tien is ostensibly a retelling of an old Thai folk tale about a battle between two giants, Yuk Wud Jaeng and Yuk Wud Pho
Monster with a Movie Camera
Director
A re-cut of the movie Hanuman and the 5 Kamen Riders spliced together with new Thai footage to create a meta "movie within a movie" narrative.