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Born in 1922 in Chachoengsao, Thailand, Vijit Kunawut graduated from Vajiravudh College in 1946 and started working as a journalist under the pen name Kunawut.
He broke into film in 1950, when he was offered the villain's role in Fa Kamnod. From there, he worked as a screenwriter, writing the dialogue for an adaptation of Wannaboon Withayakom's Phrom Bandan. His first screenplay was Santi-Vina. In 1978 he wrote and directed the drama, My Dear Wife. Next he wrote and directed Mountain People, a docu-drama about Thailand's hill tribes. It is one of his best regarded films. But his most well-known, critically acclaimed film is 1982's A Son of the Northeast, which was shot in a similar documentary style, depicting hard-scrabble life in Thailand's rural northeast.
In 1983, he became the first person in Thailand to be awarded an honorary doctorate in Communication Arts by Chulalongkorn University. In 1987, he was the first director to be honored by Thailand's National Culture Commission as the National Artist for Dramatic Arts (Motion Pictures).
Vijit died in 1997 at the age of 75.
In 2005, the Bangkok International Film Festival included four films by Vijit in a retrospective - My Dear Wife, Mountain People, A Son of the Northeast and his Vietnam War-era drama, Boon Rawd.
The festival catalog noted that "Vijit Kunawut is regarded today as a master of the Thai motion picture industry - one of the greatest inspirations to later generations of filmmakers, praised as a genius of directing, screenwriting and editing. What makes his films special is not sophisticated technique, but an exceptional clarity and concision."
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01 January 1966
Prae, a young man from Ban Sala Kwian, is fascinated by the prosperity of Bangkok. He escapes ordination, which devotes to his parents.
30 December 1954
Set in a picturesque rural area, Santi-Vina is a story of doomed romance between a blind man and a beautiful girl, with a Buddhist element in the mix.
31 January 1989
A remake of well known story… Three men and the woman who comes between them. The men, all struggling in early adulthood, share a floating bamboo hut on the river.
30 December 1955
A forbidden love story of Yupadee and Sangmong who believe that love is forever. Yupadee is a beautiful lady who married to Papho, an old but wealthy man who owns the Camp Wood in Kampangpetch province.
12 March 1965
A young girl was born into a noble family and lived a rich life. After her father passed away, Pin, her mother remarries to Mr.
12 March 1965
Poradok Sakuna is a young woman caught in a tangle of greed and betrayal. Her stepfather's sister, coveting her inheritance, arranges for her nephew to marry Poradok by force - despite him already having a secret wife.
02 July 1982
A historical drama set in the 1930s Isan province Thailand, telling the travails of a small clan of subsistence farmers and their village as a particularly bad drought reduces them to bush living.
01 July 1977
Aniruth is married and has two children, but he is a womanizer. Centers on the rivalry between a legitimate wife and her husband's mistresses, set against a backdrop of rising middle-class prosperity and social ambition.
23 July 1985
Boon Rawd, a feisty young woman returns to her hometown to seek solace and work after she is violated by her employer.
30 June 1979
Customs of the mountain people has always been strict and respectful to themselves. Doing something wrong will be considered as being disrespect to the spirits.
29 December 1973
This film is based on a novel by Kritsana Asoksin, published in Satrisan magazine between 1969 and 1970.
28 August 1971
The story of a young woman named Konthong who was kidnapped by a young man named Inthon on her wedding night and taken to be detained in a Karen village.
24 February 2024
The documentary produced in commemoration of the 101st anniversary of the birth of “Vijit Kunawut,” one of the greatest directors in the history of Thai cinema.
