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2 August 1996 (USA) moreTagline:
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 synopsisAwards:
4 wins moreUser Comments:
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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Iceland:16 | Malaysia:U | Australia:R | France:-12 | Germany:16 | New Zealand:R18 | Norway:15 | South Korea:18 | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:18 | Vietnam:(Banned)Fun Stuff
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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.