6ixtynin9 (1999)

October 20, 1999 (TH) • Comedy, Crime, Thriller • 118m

Overview

A woman, fired from a financial corporation during the Asia crisis, returns home with no money. However, she finds a box with a fortune in front of her door, and decides to keep it. However, the people that left it there soon want it back.

Director

Pen-Ek Ratanaruang

Writer

Pen-Ek Ratanaruang

Top Billed

Lalita Panyopas

Keywords

drug dealer airport escape loss of loved one dark comedy mistaken identity buddhist money old man crying break-up praying crying male

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Top Billed Cast

Lalita Panyopas

Tum

Black Phomtong

Kanchit

Aroon Wanasbodeewong

Suwat

Tasanawalai Ongartittichai

Jim

Sirisin Siripornsmathikul

Pen

Jaran Petcharoen

Uncle Yen

Wiwat Thongprasertsom

Tas

Surapol Mekpongsatorn

Young Policeman

Krisada Banjongkaew

Sum-ang

Phanom Phromachat

Supap

Likhit Thongnak

Wiroj

Atthakorn Suwannaraj

Noi

Wasan Petchnil

Berm

Wichai Jongprasitporn

Cashier

Nattha Wattanapaiboon

Sompan

Thiti Micheli

Subin

Cheathavuth Watcharakhun

Sornchak

Yupin Sathes

Pornsri

Kornkanok Naree

Saisamorn

Sira Kingmali

Tor

Prompop Leelapan

Shop Owner

Somjet Thongpreecha

Police Officer

Pradthana Chonsawat

Convict

Kamonwan Naksewa

Complainant

Tinnakorn Nukool

Motorcycle Rider

Jessada Klinsuwan

Hainanese Chicken Rice Merchant

Jarimith Nuchprapa

Chess Player

Wititanan Rojanapanit

Tickets Seller

Piyanard Sitthiku

Office Worker 1

Sompetch Nunthasinchai

Office Worker 2

Sujitra Benjathikul

Office Worker 3

Wirada Treehiran

Office Worker 4

Ananya Wongsrisornsak

Office Worker 5

Patthamaporn Ngaokhukhan

Office Worker 6

Kanokwan Numkorn

Office Worker 7

Crew

Pen-Ek Ratanaruang

Producer

Pen-Ek Ratanaruang

Director

Patamanadda Yukol

Editor

Chankit Chamnivikaipong

Director of Photography

Pen-Ek Ratanaruang

Screenplay

Charoen Iamphungporn

Executive Producer

Chedpong Laoyant

First Assistant Director

Sombatsara Teerasaroch

Costume Designer

Amornbhong Methakunavudh

Sound Designer

Niwat Sumneangsanor

Sound Recordist

Wild at Heart

Music Score Producer

Saksiri Chantarangsri

Art Direction

Paibuljkiat Kheokao

Original Music Composer

Reviews

John Chard

⭐ 8/10

February 9, 2016

A funny story about 6 and 9.

6ixtynin9 (Ruang talok 69) is without doubt a film of acquired tastes, a pic that's hard to recommend with any great confidence. That is, though, unless you have a kink for violent black comedy crime movies, where the narrative drive is quirky and fulsome, even winsome in some regards.

Story finds Lalita Panyopas (excellent) as Tum, a lady who has just been laid off from work courtesy of lots being drawn. Feeling desperate and at the end of her tether, she's amazed to find on her doorstep a noodle box with $25,000 in it. A gift from the gods? Not quite! And once some shifty gangster types come knocking at her door, nothing will ever be the same again...

There's a whole ream of films this draws from, but favourably so, especially since the films often referenced in reviews are pretty tasty in themselves. Yet this is no hack job, director and writer Pen-Ek Ratanaruang has crafted a splendid pot of Thai neo-noir curry, putting his own stamp on things, imbuing the pic with his own flourishes, such as showing acts of violence off screen! Via a shadow, a splatter of blood, or a pair of legs going limp.

The characters who inhabit this world are gloriously strange or purely deranged. The henchmen are from a Thai boxing club, garishly attired in bright red clobber (film is packed with pronounced reds), one of them is even deaf, while their boss is a bit off the map, likes to have one of his charges massage him with is feet. There's a phone sex pest, who ends up being a real key component to how things pan out, and one of the baddies reveals tears and a most bizarre death in the family!

It's all deliciously off kilter, even as the bodies pile up, the black comedy tongue is prodding away at the inside of the cheek. But ultimately its noir heart is with the vagary of fate and of the coincidences that pitch our everyday woman (she's no moll or assassin type) into a bloody and bonkers world. All of which has hinged, ironically, on a number badly screwed to an apartment door! 8/10

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