Buffalo Boy

6.5 / 10

(10 votes)

Set along the southern coast of Vietnam during the French occupation in the 1940s, water is everywhere, giving life and bringing decay and rot. Kim is 15; his father and step-mother have two buffalo, their lifeline as subsistence rice farmers. During the rainy season, there's no grass and the buffalo are starving. Kim volunteers to take the beasts inland to find food. On this coming-of-age journey, Kim sees men mistreat women, men fight with men, and French taxes rob the poor. He works for Lap, a buffalo herder whose past is entangled with Kim's parents, and he makes friends who will lead him to his place in the world.

Country:

Vietnam,

Germany,

France,

Belgium

Genre:

Drama

Duration:

102 minutes

Year:

2005

Director:

Minh Nguyen-Vo

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Company:

Thoke Moebius Film Company,

Giai Phong Film Studio,

Novak Prod,

3B Productions

Cast:
Thạch Kim Long

Thanh

Thi Kieu Trinh Nguyen

Ban

The Lu Le

Kim

Huu Thanh Nguyen

Dinh, Kim's Father

Zan Sram Kra

Det

Crew:
Minh Nguyen-Vo

Director

Minh Nguyen-Vo

Writer

Nam Son

Writer