Task: Question Answering
Input (English): Context: Pen-Ek Ratanaruang (born 8 March 1962, Bangkok, Thailand) is a Thai film director and screenwriter. He is best known for his arthouse work, "Last Life in the Universe", and is considered to be one of Thai cinema's leading "new wave" auteurs, alongside Wisit Sasanatieng and Apichatpong Weerasethakul. He goes by the nickname Tom and is sometimes credited as Tom Pannet., Ruang Talok 69 ( Thai :  69 , English : 6ixtynin9 or A Funny Story About 6 and 9 ) , is a 1999 Thai crime film written and directed by Pen - Ek Ratanaruang . It is the second feature film by the Thai writer - director . It stars Lalita Panyopas , a popular star of Thai soap operas ., Lalita Panyopas (Thai:  , born October 5, 1971) is a Thai film and television actress. She is best known in Thailand for her roles in lakorn (soap operas). She made a string of feature films in the late 1980s and also was the lead actress in many Thai lakorns in the late 1980s to early 2000s. Her most prominent film role was as Tum, the unlucky central character in Pen-Ek Ratanaruang's 1999 film "Ruang Talok 69". In 2007, she was reunited with Pen-Ek, starring in "Ploy", which was screened in the Director's Fortnight at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival., A film director is a person who directs the making of a film. Generally, a film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects, and visualizes the script while guiding the technical crew and actors in the fulfillment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, production design, and the creative aspects of filmmaking. Under European Union law, the director is viewed as the author of the film., Subject: ruang talok 69, Relation: country_of_origin, Options: (A) european union (B) thailand
Output (English): thailand