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Cyclo (Vietnamese: Xích Lô [sɨt̚˦˥ lo˧˧]) is a 1995 film by Tran Anh Hung. It stars Lê Văn Lộc, Tony Leung Chiu Wai and Trần Nữ Yên Khê. The film is about the hard lives of the labor force in early 1990s Ho Chi Minh City, and how people come under the influence of crime.
Cyclo: Directed by Anh Hung Tran. With Le Van Loc, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Nu Yên-Khê Tran, Quynh Nhu. When a poor bicycle-taxi driver has his cyclo stolen, he is forced into a life of crime. Meanwhile, his sister becomes a prostitute.
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- Crime, Drama
- Anh Hung Tran
- 1996-08-02
Apr 1, 2023 · The film’s title character, the Cyclo (Xích lô), is a poor, orphaned boy growing up in Sài Gòn, forced into a life of crime when his rented source of income, the eponymous cyclo, is stolen from him – a scenario inevitably inspired by Vittorio De Sica’s Ladri di biciclette (Bicycle Thieves, 1948). Also vital to this film is the ...
Feb 12, 2020 · A young man who struggles through life by earning some money with his bicycle-taxi in Saigon (Ho Chi Minh city) gets contact to a group of criminals. They introduce him to the...
- 2 min
- 14.9K
- Chao Hanoi
An 18-year-old orphan who is only known by his profession of a cyclo (pedal-taxi) driver, struggles on the streets of Ho Chi Minh City. When his...
- (12)
- Crime, Drama
- Tran Anh Hung
Mar 21, 1996 · When a vicious band of youths beat him and steal the vehicle he has been renting, the Cyclo is obliged to embark on a life of crime. He becomes part of his patron's gang of heavies...
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Oct 13, 2021 · Set in Saigon of the early 1990s, Cyclo tells the horrific stories of laborers who live hand-to-mouth, and how they survived amid the suffocating violence and deprivation that permeated the war-torn city. For this reason, most of the scenes here were actually shot in Saigon.
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