Career
He is best known for directing several Thai films such as The 6 Ultra Brothers versus the Monster Army, Hanuman and the Five Riders, the 1980 cult classic Crocodile, Phra Rod Meree and the 1985 children"s film Magic Lizard. He was born in a Thai Chinese family. At the age of seven years old, he left his family to live in the temple (Wat).
Sompote have dream to filmmaker as a child.
In 1960, he traveled to Japan for study filmmaking at Toho. He have the opportunity to work with Eiji Tsuburaya and Akira Kurosawa and the mold itself, he claimed to have had a part in designing Ultraman.
He was a major part of the licensing rights dispute of Ultraman outside Japan, claiming to have co-ownership of Ultra Series outside Japan, he claims to have been the transfer of copyrights from Noboru Tsuburaya (Son of Eiji Tsuburaya) in 1975 after the film Jumborg Ace & Giant and The 6 Ultra Brothers versus the Monster Army then successfully make a money. To help the financial position of Tsuburaya Productions.
He is currently staying in a private home on over 80 Rai (about 32 acre) at Bang Pa-in District, Ayutthaya Province.
This place was once used as his film studio in the past, and a collected of object about Ultraman Series more than 1 million pieces a tremendous value. lieutenant is called the "Ultraman Land".
