Filmmaker · Burma (Myanmar)
U Thu Kha
Died in 2005
Thukha, whose real name was Thein Maung, was born on 14 January 1910 in Sarphyuzu, in the Irrawaddy delta. The grandson of a harpist, he learned classical Burmese music early and published his first short story at nineteen, under another name. He came to cinema in 1938, or after the war according to other sources, wrote screenplays and songs, directed thirty-three films, six of them awarded for direction, and founded a production company. He died in Rangoon on 7 December 2005.