Yongyoot Thongkongtoon

Yongyoot Thongkongtoon

Born: February 18, 1967
in Thailand
Yongyoot Thongkongtoon is a Thai film director, producer, and screenwriter. He made his debut in 2000 with the sports comedy The Iron Ladies. He graduated from Chulalongkorn University, with a Bachelor's degree in Communication Arts (Broadcasting), in Bangkok. His debut feature in 2000 was The Iron Ladies, a fact-based sports comedy about a volleyball team of gay and transgender men. The film won several awards in Thailand and at film festivals, including the Thailand National Film Association Awards and a special mention Teddy Award at the 2001 Berlin Film Festival. Yongyoot also directed the sequel, The Iron Ladies 2, in 2003.

In 2004, he directed Maid a spy spoof in which maids are recruited for a top-secret government intelligence agency. It was his first release under the new studio GTH, formed by the merger of GMM Grammy's GMM Pictures, producer Visute Poolvoralaks' Tai Entertainment and producer-director Jira Maligool's Hub Ho Hin production company.

This was followed by the 2006 romantic comedy-drama Metrosexual, about a group of women trying to figure out if the fiance of one of their friends is a closeted gay.

He currently works at three film and media companies: as Senior Creative Producer at Sanookdee Thaweesuk; co-founder, Senior Director of Marketing Communications and Senior Director of International Business Department at GDH 559; and co-founder of Hub Ho Hin Bangkok.

Movies for Yongyoot Thongkongtoon...

36 Live in Busan
Title: 36 Live in Busan
Character: Himself
Released: March 28, 2020
Type: Movie
The journey of the 36 film to the audience at the Busan Film Festival
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Seven Something
Title: Seven Something
Character: Award Attendees (segment "21/28")
Released: July 26, 2012
Type: Movie
Three modern love stories focus on how digital privacy, fleeting fame and the power of personal reinvention can change one's romantic destiny.
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The Possible
Title: The Possible
Character: Gruel Restaurant Owner
Released: December 4, 2006
Type: Movie
In 1970, a string band called "The Possible" was really popular and made a fever among young people. One day, the band received a microphone as the present from a mysterious fan. Miraculously, the microphone was a time-machine that accidentally took them to the future, in 2007, where the modern music rules and they're just an out-of-date item.
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Seasons Change
Title: Seasons Change
Character: Costumer
Released: August 31, 2006
Type: Movie
The story takes place at the College of Music, Mahidol University over one year and covers the three seasons that Bangkok typically experiences - summer, winter and monsoon.
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M.A.I.D.
Title: M.A.I.D.
Character: Owner of Soft Boiled Rice Store
Released: December 23, 2004
Type: Movie
A group of house maids are transferred to be secret agents to investigate a suspicious event with modest technology equipment. The new blood agents struggle in the rough and tough mission without the knowledge of how to use the equipment and that leads to the failure of their mission. Are they gonna make it while they have to do housework and the mission in the same time?
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My Girl
Title: My Girl
Character: Tee's Father
Released: October 3, 2003
Type: Movie
Jeab, a young man working in Bangkok, receives word that his childhood sweetheart, Noi-Naa is to be married. While driving back to his hometown, the memories from his childhood come flooding back.
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Fun Bar Karaoke
Title: Fun Bar Karaoke
Character: MC
Released: February 20, 1997
Type: Movie
Pu is a young woman who is having some bad dreams. Her father, meanwhile, has fallen in love with a karaoke bar hostess girl named Yok who's the girlfriend of a mobster. A hitman named Noi is then dispatched to kill the father, and Pu ends up falling in love with Noi.