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From the director of the Oscar-nominated Scent of Green Papaya, Tran Anh Hung, comes Cyclo, a gritty, atmospheric look at down-and-out lives in Saigon. In Vietnam, a cyclo is a bicycle taxi, but also the name given to the driver of the same taxi. Le Van Loc is the Cyclo, an innocent 18 year-old boy who accepts fares to help support his grandfather and two sisters. When the Cyclo's bicycle is stolen, he forms an odd friendship with the Poet (Tony Leung Chiu-Wai) to make ends meet. But the Poet is a small-time criminal, and through their involvement, the Cyclo falls deeper into a world of theft, drug trafficking, prostitution and even murder. Unlike in many Asian gangster films, he criminal underworld of Cyclo is presented without glamour, and is instead depicted as cold, brutal, and unflinchingly dark. A visionary glimpse at the loss of innocence on Saigon's streets, Cyclo is a vivid, almost hypnotic motion picture which uses image and emotion instead of dialogue to spin a complex portrait of a decaying city.
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| Product Title: | Cyclo 三輪車夫 叁轮车夫 シクロ（三輪車夫） (DVD) Cyclo |
| Artist Name(s): | Tony Leung Chiu Wai (Actor) | Anh Hung Tran 梁 朝偉 (Actor) | Anh Hung Tran 梁 朝伟 (Actor) | Anh Hung Tran 梁朝偉（トニー・レオン） (Actor) | トラン・アン・ユン 양조위 (Actor) | Anh Hung Tran |
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| Release Date: | 2000-12-08 |
| Language: | Mandarin, VIETNAMESE |
| Subtitles: | English, Traditional Chinese |
| Country of Origin: | Hong Kong |
| Disc Format(s): | DVD |
| Region Code: | All Region What is it? |
| Duration: | 129 (mins) |
| Publisher: | Mega Star (HK) |
| Package Weight: | 130 (g) |
| Shipment Unit: | 1 What is it? |
| YesAsia Catalog No.: | 1001801975 |
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主演：梁朝偉 Cast：Tony Leung
導演：陳英雄 Director：Tran Ahn Hung
榮獲威尼斯電影節最佳電影金獅獎
康城影帝“梁朝偉”最佳力作
在今日的越南胡志明市，年輕的三輪車伕與祖父和姐姐 們同住在一個窮鄉僻壤的村落。一年前父親因三輪車意外身 亡，深受此事啟蒙。年輕人希望用父親留給自己的三輪車以 作謀生之用，但三輪車被人偷去。車伕最後被迫加入怠工行 動，被捕証明有罪，但財力令他的罪行得以赦免，使他感到 黑幫的權高力大，故加入一個詩人管理下之黑幫團體工作…
This story is set in modern-day Ho Chi Hing City, Vietnam. A young man
works as a cyclo. His parents are dead. He items with his grandfather and sisters in a poor neighbourhood. Faithful in the teachings of his father (himself a cyclo killed in a accident a year earlier) the cyclo strives to improve his lot in life. But someone steals his means of making l living. The vehicle was rented form his boss, a woman with a crazy son the cyclo's age. To pay her back, the youny man is forced to commit acts of sabotage and very quickly, he is caught up in the spiralof crime. Easy money and the impunity of his actions give the cyclo a feeling of power and make him want to join the gang by the poet. By sheer coincidence, the poet already has a link with the cyclo: he is pimping the boy's elder sister. Between the cyclo, the poet and the sister, innocence is at stake...
導演：陳英雄 Director：Tran Ahn Hung
榮獲威尼斯電影節最佳電影金獅獎
康城影帝“梁朝偉”最佳力作
在今日的越南胡志明市，年輕的三輪車伕與祖父和姐姐 們同住在一個窮鄉僻壤的村落。一年前父親因三輪車意外身 亡，深受此事啟蒙。年輕人希望用父親留給自己的三輪車以 作謀生之用，但三輪車被人偷去。車伕最後被迫加入怠工行 動，被捕証明有罪，但財力令他的罪行得以赦免，使他感到 黑幫的權高力大，故加入一個詩人管理下之黑幫團體工作…
This story is set in modern-day Ho Chi Hing City, Vietnam. A young man
works as a cyclo. His parents are dead. He items with his grandfather and sisters in a poor neighbourhood. Faithful in the teachings of his father (himself a cyclo killed in a accident a year earlier) the cyclo strives to improve his lot in life. But someone steals his means of making l living. The vehicle was rented form his boss, a woman with a crazy son the cyclo's age. To pay her back, the youny man is forced to commit acts of sabotage and very quickly, he is caught up in the spiralof crime. Easy money and the impunity of his actions give the cyclo a feeling of power and make him want to join the gang by the poet. By sheer coincidence, the poet already has a link with the cyclo: he is pimping the boy's elder sister. Between the cyclo, the poet and the sister, innocence is at stake...
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Awards
This film has won 2 award(s).
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Venice International Film Festival 1995
- Golden Lion Winner, Chen Ying Xiong
- FIPRESCI Prize Winner
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Professional Review of "Cyclo"
November 9, 2005
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Cyclo is an underestimated, underappreciated classic that received backhanded dismissal from audiences the first time around. Winner of the Golden Lion at the 1995 Venice Film Festival, it was roundly dismissed as boring; audiences only had room for one Vietnamese movie (Director Tran's previous The Scent of Green Papaya); to ask them to appreciate two in a row, from the same director, was apparently asking too much.
A Scent of Green Papaya was filmed entirely on a soundstage outside Paris. Cyclo is filmed entirely on location in Ho Chi Minh city and it's a Third World Blade Runner eye-boggle: exposed wires running up crumbling cement walls; rotting apartment buildings full of empty, blood-stained rooms; hallways shin-deep in filthy water; a man named Mr. Lullaby who cocoons his victims in packing tape before snipping open their jugulars. It's a freaky kind of world - a harsher, crueler world - that the Cyclo (Le Van Loc) lives in. He makes enough driving his cyclo (driver and vehicle share a name) to earn a living, but not enough to better his lot: he'll die with nothing to pass on but poverty. His broke-down path crosses Tony Leung's, a commandingly rumpled figure who mopes around Ho Chi Minh city in a yellowing linen suit organizing hits and drug deals. Tony's not poor the way the Cyclo is, having sold his emotions to pay for his living: he pimps a bevy of women whom he also seems to be in love with. One of them happens to be the Cyclo's sister (Tran Nu Yen Khe, the director's wife) who has become a fetish hooker (men pay to wash her feet), and the sinuous overlapping plotlines wind around each other like a sackful of snakes. Although Tony's called "The Poet" in the credits, and we get to listen to his poetry in voice over, don't be fooled: everyone in this movie was stunted by something at an early age - poverty or abuse - and he's just a guy with a bad childhood who knows how to talk pretty; he's got no idea what poetry is. He only knows hurt. A gorgeous movie crushingly concerned with work and the brutal repetition of menial tasks, Cyclo deserves to be reevaluated. You'll love to look at it, but as it suffocates you in its oppressive, humid embrace, you'll be glad you don't live there. by Grady Hendrix |
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Anonymous
July 20, 2004
July 20, 2004
violence, love, and despair in moderrn day Vietnam
| This is a tale of how poverty and despair lead to violence, destruction, and a loss of innocence. The cinematography and the use of color is excellent. A work of realism, this is not an easy movie to watch at times. My absolute favourite part is in the disco where the girl is slowly dancing to Radiohead's "Creep" ... the scene is made soft and lush by her beautiful face, smile, and hypnotic movements while the background is flashing with fast, sharp colored lights all around her. Tony Leung's performance as the poetic ganster is that of the tortured soul unable to escape his past, present, and slew of twisted relationships. While he engages in little dialogue in the movie, the little Vietnamese he speaks is solid. An art film to it's core, Cylco should not be missed by those who value an honest, unapologetic, and artful look at the world and the lives that move through it. |
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March 8, 2003
March 8, 2003
Realistic life in Vietnam
| So the story is not about Tony Leung. It is about another Vietnamese actor who is going through life in Vietnam as a Cyclo driver. Tony Leung works for the Madam in Vietnam Chinatown who owns the Cyclos and causing all the trouble for him. Tony Leung is one of her top pimps. Tony Leung is very visible though very little conversation as is the same for all other actors. An art film of some sort but my husband who is from Vietnam loved every moment of it because the story is so very very true. For those who need to be reminded the poverty and dire circumstances of Vietnam, this is a treasure. |
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| FIY... THE STORY IS NOT ABOUT TONY LEUNG. HE'S NOT EVEN THE SUPPORTING ACTOR. HE DOESN'T EVEN HAVE A COMPLETE SENTENCE IN THE MOVIE. HE'S CONVERSATION WOULD BE YES, OR NO, OR ANY OTHER ONE SYLABLE WORD. TONY LEUNG FAN, |
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February 1, 2001
February 1, 2001
Re: Anonymous on 01/30/2001 12:09:00 AM
| The synopsis is translated by the publisher of this film. It's printed on the back cover of the VCD box. If you've any complaint, you had better to find the right person. |
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January 30, 2001
January 30, 2001
Who translated the synopsis?
| Whoever translated the synopsis did a very terrible job. Asians are already stereotyped as having very strange ways of speaking and this proves it beyond any shadow of a doubt. The English version of the synopsis makes no sense at all, and whoever wrote it should learn how to speak, read and write English and go read a real movie review. In layman's terms, the person who translated that... |
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