Tum is a secretary in a finance company. The ailing economy forces the company to layoff some of its staff, and Tum happens to be one of them. The morning after, Tum, still shocked and depressed, finds a box of instant noodles in front of her apartment. Out of curiosity, she takes the box inside and finds out it is full of banknotes. But before she can decide what to do with it, there is a knock on her door. Follow interlink stories all incredibly crazier than the others, where there are mixed accidental murders, escape, love, revenge, and other strange coincidences…
A breakthrough work by Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, starring then-reigning soap opera queen Lalita Panyopas. The film won the Don Quixote Award - Special Mention at the Berlin International Film Festival. In 2023, the film was adapted into the Netflix series 6ixtynin9: The Series, also written and directed by Ratanaruang.
 | Pen-ek Ratanaruang Asian cinema’s influential auteurs, widely regarded as a pioneer of the Thai New Wave. He made his feature debut with Fun Bar Karaoke (1997), a film that broke away from established Thai narrative and stylistic conventions, ushering in a new creative direction for the local industry and securing his place at the forefront of the movement. His works have been selected by major international film festivals including Cannes, Berlin, and Venice. Notable titles such as 6ixtynin9 (1999), Transistor Love Story (2001), Last Life in the Universe (2003), and Invisible Waves (2006) have been distributed worldwide to wide acclaim. Ratanaruang has also maintained long-standing collaborations with artists across Asia, including renowned cinematographer Christopher Doyle, Japanese actor Tadanobu Asano, Korean actress Kang Hye-jung, and director Takashi Miike, shaping a distinctly transnational cinematic perspective. Stylistically, his work moves between dark humor and existentialism, marked by a restrained visual language and controlled narrative rhythm. He frequently portrays urban outcasts caught in absurd and alienating circumstances, while subtly embedding moments of emotional intimacy and human observation beneath an ostensibly detached surface. In 2025, Ratanaruang reunited with Christopher Doyle for the third time on his latest film Morte Cucina, marking their first collaboration in nineteen years. | |