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Cyclo
Follows a young cyclo driver on his poverty-driven descent into criminality in modern-day Ho Chi Minh City. The boy's struggles to scratch out a living for his two sisters and grandfather in the mean streets of the city lead to petty crime on behalf of a mysterious Madame from whom he rents his cyclo.
1995 · Directed by Trần Anh Hùng · 123 min · Drama · Crime · 8 frames
Crew
- Written by: Trần Anh Hùng
- Cinematography: Benoît Delhomme
- Edited by: Benoît Delhomme, Claude Ronzeau, Nicole Dedieu
- Music: Tôn-Thât Tiêt
- Produced by: Christophe Rossignon
Cast
- Le Van Loc as Cyclo
- Tony Leung Chiu-wai as Poet
- Như Quỳnh as Madam
- Hoàng Phúc as Tooth
- Ngo Quang Hai as Knife
- Tuyết Ngân as Happy Woman
- Doan Viet Ha as Sad Woman
- Bjuhoang Huy as Crazy Son
- Vo Vinh Phuc as Cyclo's Friend
- Le Kinh Huy as Grandfather
Production
- Country: France, Hong Kong, Vietnam
- Language: Vietnamese
- Studios: Les Productions Lazennec, La Sept Cinéma, Lumière, Salon Films
- Themes: saigon, bicycle, slaughterhouse, poverty, drugs, criminal underworld, stolen bicycle, forced prostitution, water gun, pig slaughter
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