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Xich lo
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Overview

User Rating:
7.2/10   2,023 votes
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Director:
Anh Hung Tran
Writer:
Anh Hung Tran (writer)
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Release Date:
2 August 1996 (USA) more
Genre:
Crime | Drama more
Tagline:
From the director of the Academy Award Nominated film "The Scent of Green Papaya" comes a shocking new vision of beauty, passion and power.
Plot:
A young man who struggles through life by earning some money with his bicycle-taxi in Saigon (Ho-Chi-Min-City) gets contact to a group of criminals... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
4 wins more
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A gripping drama of love and death in Saigon more (25 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Le Van Loc ... Cyclo

Tony Leung Chiu Wai ... Poet
Tran Nu Yên-Khê ... Sister
Nhu Quynh Nguyen ... Madam
Hoang Phuc Nguyen ... Tooth
Ngo Vu Quang Hal ... Knife
Tuyet Ngan Nguyen ... Happy Woman
Doan Viet Ha ... Sad Woman
Bjuhoang Huy ... Crazy Son
Vo Vinh Phuc ... Cyclo's Friend
Le Kinh Huy ... Grandfather
Pham Ngoc Lieu ... Little Sister
Le Tuan Anh ... Handcuff Man
Le Cong Tuan Anh ... Drunken Dancer
Van Day Nguyen ... Lullaby Man
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Cyclo (France)
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Runtime:
USA:123 min
Language:
Vietnamese
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby
Company:
Canal+ more

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"Visa d'exploitation" in France: #83320 more
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Referenced in Film Geek (2005) more
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Creep more

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5 out of 6 people found the following comment useful.
A gripping drama of love and death in Saigon, 15 December 2003
10/10
Author: gray4 from Somerset, England

This is an astonishing film. It captures Vietnam as it transforms from a tightly controlled communist state to a free-market economy, with the poverty, crime, overcrowding and squalor in graphic detail. It must be one of the most dramatic portraits of Third World poverty ever put on film.

The story of a young man's descent and redemption goes back to 1930s Hollywood and the Italian neo-realists. But it is transformed by its setting in a Saigon hell-hole, and by the complexity of the characters. There are no stereotypes. Even the most vicious pimps and murderers have redeeming features. And an overall theme of a father's influence on his sons is distinctively Asian. The emigre Vietnamese director Anh Hung Tran brings a cold, sharp yet loving eye to Saigon and Vietnam. One of the greatest films of the 1990s.

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