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Release Date: 1995

Cast: Le Van Loc, Hoang Phuc Nguyen, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Ngo Vu Quang Hal, Trần Nữ Yên Khê, Tuyet Ngan Nguyen

Categories: Movies, Crime Fiction, Coming of age, Chinese Movies, World cinema, Crime Drama

Cyclo (Vietnamese: Xích Lô) is a 1995 film by Vietnamese director Tran Anh Hung (who had made The Scent of Green Papaya). It stars Le Van Loc, Tony Leung Chiu Wai and Trần Nữ Yên Khê. The film was awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. A young cyclo rickshaw driver (Le Van Loc) pedals his cyclo through the crowded road of Saigon (modern day Ho Chi Minh City) in search for his next passenger. He inherited the cyclo from his late father, who died in a road accident while a truck hit him when he was driving the cyclo. His father did not want his son to take up his... MORE

Cyclo (Vietnamese: Xích Lô) is a 1995 film by Vietnamese director Tran Anh Hung (who had made The Scent of Green Papaya). It stars Le Van Loc, Tony Leung Chiu Wai and Trần Nữ Yên Khê. The film was awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. A young cyclo rickshaw driver (Le Van Loc) pedals his cyclo through the crowded road of Saigon (modern day Ho Chi Minh City) in search for his next passenger. He inherited the cyclo from his late father, who died in a road accident while a truck hit him when he was driving the cyclo. His father did not want his son to take up his profession and desired him to live a better life than a cyclo driver. The cyclo driver's grandfather repairs tires despite his failing health, his younger sister shines shoes beside a restaurant along with other poor children and his older sister (Trần Nữ Yên Khê) delivers water to local grocery stores. Their poor but peaceful lives are jeopardized when the cyclo is stolen by a gang. The cyclo driver is beaten when he frantically chases after them. He pays a visit to his employer (Nhu Quynh Nguyen), a middle-aged woman, who dotes her mentally retarded adult son. Nowhere to go, he is forced to join the criminal LESS