Ruj Ronapop

Ruj Ronapop

Birth : 1931-03-13, Nakhon Sri Thammarat, Thailand

Death : 2009-12-27

History

Ruj Ronapop (Thai:  รุจน์ รณภพ) is an actor, screenwriter and director, born in Nakhon Si Thammarat Province, Thailand. He directed over 30 films and acted in more than 50 films. He is well known for directing romance movies, such as the Sunset at Chaopraya (1988), Louie (1977) and Phairak Soom Suang (1975).

Profile

Ruj Ronapop

Movies

Dangerous Years
Chot
In 1977, there’s a fight between soldiers and communists in a village along the border. Sak, a teacher in the village, loses his wife and his young daughter but his son is saved by Pew who later adopts him and changes his name to Tin.
Ruen mayura
Romantic Blue
Dad
Mai and Men are brothers. Mai quits school to go work as a mechanic while his brother stays in school and chases girls. However his need for money increases as his father gets sick and ends up in the hospital with bills no one can afford. He has a girlfriend he loves named Pom. The mechanic there knows of his financial problems and teaches him how to break into cars. He introduces him to a professional car theft gang and he starts working for them. The gang is run by Toh who he soon finds out is a violent sadistic killer. They all start arguing about the division of the profits from the cars. His girlfriend runs off with his brother as he is never around. Can Mai fix things up with her and can he get out of the gang alive?
Men’s Diary
Director
Deaw’s parents got separated, like many of his friends, who also have many problems at school, so they finally all got kicked out. Once out of school, they all want to travel by hitchhiking; one time they almost get arrested because the truck they are riding in is carrying some illegal merchandise. When they get back home, they keep on encouraging Deaw to study hard until finally he passed the entrance exam. Deaw keeps on writing his diary every time when he’s thinking about his father who he has not seen for two years.
Muen and Rid
Pranontaburi
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.
Bank Robbers
Superintendent
John and Kong, both were working for an auto shop with Berm who was working at a rice mill. They tired of their direly chores and together they robbed a bank. It was too easy for them. However, they have to be on the run when cops are after them. The trio takes hostages but after all they have to surrender and the law once again is the winner.
Lhong Fai
Director
Because she was poor and was sexually abused by her uncle, Kaew decides to quit school and work as an escort girl. Her boy friend goes to work out of town and keeps sending her money regularly, hoping that she would save it for their marriage. Kaew is very happy with her work and enjoys being with many different wealthy men, until she meets Chol, the son of a millionaire, who has never worked and is addicted to gambling.
Tomorrow I Will Love You
Director
While Niorn was riding in a taxi cab, the driver have tried to put her to sleep by using nitrous on her, but luckily Non happened to came by and help, but when she woke up in a hotel room wasn’t sure what’s really happened to her. Pranart , Niorn’s brother came to visit, and get to meet Supak, Non trying to get close to Niorn, but she keep avoiding him. Nevin, an oil millionaire who likes supak, this surely surprised Pranart and Niorn. On Non and Supak wedding day, Non took Niorn away from the ceremony instead. Pranart asked Supak to marry him. Non confessed to Niorn about the day in the hotel room that he didn’t do anything to her at all, so Niorn beginning to understand Non Better.
Karn
Director
A young and dedicated doctor who believes in saving lives especially the unfortunate poor’s, takes his young wife along to work in a small town, leaving behind the comfortable life of the city. He’s not only going to fight to save their marriage but also the corrupted local official till the end.
Sunset at Chaopraya
Screenplay
The story of endless love is set amidst the fiercest conflict this world has ever known – World War II. As war is about to break out in Europe, Vanus is on his way to England to join the Free Thai movement. He hopes to receive a definite promise from Angsumalin that she will marry him after the war.
Sunset at Chaopraya
Director
The story of endless love is set amidst the fiercest conflict this world has ever known – World War II. As war is about to break out in Europe, Vanus is on his way to England to join the Free Thai movement. He hopes to receive a definite promise from Angsumalin that she will marry him after the war.
Ratanavadee
Director
Lady Rattanavadi travels to Europe via England. A friend of his brother volunteer to be a guide, but never be found when she arrives. She mad at him but meets with his driver instead. So she has to travel along with the driver. They fond with each other, but finally the driver is not really a driver.
Bride of Arnon
Director
Arnon, young and good looking engineer, propose to every girls he met. He is assigned to check machine at coconut field in rural. He meets with a tomboy, Suchada. At first, he do not like her. After he finds that tomboy is a girl, he gradually tries to win her heart.
Pojaman
Director
This sequel features the married life of Khun Chai Klang and Pojaman. They got married without the approval of his mother and sister. Pojaman has to prove and show everyone her good intentions before she can find true happiness.
Sai Tong
Director
A story of Pojaman Pinitnant, young girl from rural comes to live with her relatives in the city after her father died. She is treated badly from the members of the house, except some. Many events happen including surprising one that changes her fate.
Chard Pa Yong
Director
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.
Narok Tarutao
Director
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.
Snake Queen
A group of white slavers think they've hit the jackpot when they stumble across a cave filled with young and beautiful girls. They don't realize this all-female society consists of deadly snake women.
Tone
Tone is the Thai equivalent of a 1960s youth rebellion movie, which is to say that there's no youth rebellion in it at all: Just good kids being good, dancing sedately, trying to get into good schools, drinking punch, bowling, and settling their romantic differences in the most clear-headed and amicable way possible -- even if they do so while wearing some seriously funky period clothes and listening to that crazy longhair music. Fortunately, there are also some vicious underworld characters on hand so that we can still have the traditional Thai movie finale in which the Thai police show up en masse to shoot the hell out of some people.
Paradise Island
The scenery of Samui in 1969 is the background of the musical love story between the couples from the rival families. Sombat Mathanee stars the playboy, Paduempun against Arunya Naamwong who plays the business girl, Napaporn. They came to Paradise Island to take care of their family coconut orchards. They bet who could work more successful. If the guy won, the girl must have married him. If he lost, he gave up his business to her. In the midst of controversy, he fell in love with her. Meanwhile, she began to be confused because she might be in love with him as well.
Operation Revenge
Suriyan
An ex-cop goes rogue and sets out to hunt down a ruthless drug cartel, even though it goes against his professional conduct. Meanwhile, the beautiful daughter of the ringleader who was killed in an internal feud has returned to Thailand from Hong Kong to take revenge on her father. She teamed up with the ex-cop to pursue the crafty villain of the local opium trade, while an anti-narcotic detective sent by the government also joins the fray.
7 พระกาฬ
Seven convicts are on the loose after their prison bus crashes.
The Battle of Bang Rajan
This movie is about Bang Rajan village. This village is located north of Ayutthaya, the old capital of Siam, predecessor state to modern Thailand. The village played a famous role related to its resistance against the Burmese in the war that saw the destruction of Ayutthaya city in 1767. Tap is a Siamese soldier leader. Siamese people have internal conflicts while they are also fighting with Burma.
Sugar Is Not Sweet
Chaokun Jaroenkesa, the owner of 'Kesajaroen', a shop that sells hair loss treatment, wants to pay back his debt of kindness to his dear Indian friend, whose formula is responsible for the company's prosperity, by hiring Manas, his good-for-nothing son, to marry Nam Tan (Sugar), the daughter of his dear friend, for two-million baht.