Buffalo Boy
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.
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Cast
16 people
Lê Thế Lữ
Kim
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Kiều Trinh
Ban
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A Tourist's Guide to Love
Nguyễn Hữu Thành
Dinh, Kim's Father
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Home Sweet Home
14 Days
Zan Sram Kra
Det
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Van Be Truong
Hai Tich
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Ánh Hoa
Bà Hai
Known for
The Scent of Green Papaya
Nguyễn Thị Thắm
Ba Tu
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Song Lang
Ky Nam Inn
Hoang Nhan Vo
Lap
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Trạng Quỳnh
Trương Quang Thịnh
Quang
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The Mouse
Con đường sáng
Nguyễn Văn Đây
Xuyen
Known for
Cyclo
Thạch Kim Long
Thanh
Known for
Furie
Thi Thu Tam Cao
Lam
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Minh Nguyen-Vo Director · Nam Son Writer Tôn-Thât Tiêt Composer
United States release October 13, 2004 · Produced in Vietnam, Germany, France, Belgium · Production Giai Phong Film Studio, Novak Prod
Production
Thoke Moebius Film Company
Production
Giai Phong Film Studio
Production
Novak Prod
Production
3B Productions
Production
Novak Production
Production
Vietnam · Germany · France · Belgium
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Languages
Original title
Mùa len trâu
Original language
Vietnamese
Spoken on screen
Vietnamese
Release dates
Switzerland · August 9, 2004
Premiere
United States · October 13, 2004
Limited theatrical · Chicago International Film Festival
Vietnam · June 2, 2005
Theatrical
United States
February 12, 2005 · Limited theatrical · Portland International Film Festival
Canada
August 14, 2004 · Limited theatrical · Toronto International Film Festival
France
October 5, 2004 · Limited theatrical · Paris Quinzaine du Cinéma Francophone
November 7, 2004 · Limited theatrical · Amiens International Film Festival
March 23, 2005 · Theatrical
Sweden
January 31, 2007 · Limited theatrical · Göteborg International Film Festival
Vietnam
November 1, 2007 · Theatrical · Vietnam Film Festival
October 18, 2010 · Limited theatrical · Vietnam International Film Festival
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