Buffalo Boy (2005)

Name: Buffalo Boy
Director: Minh Nguyen-Vo
Genre: Drama
Released: 2005-03-23
Duration: 1 h 42 min
Cast: Kim Long Thach, Thi Kieu Trinh Nguyen, The Lu Le, Huu Thanh Nguyen, Zan Sram Kra

Vietnamese 1h 42m

Drama

Directed by Minh Nguyen-Vo Starring Kim Long Thach, Thi Kieu Trinh Nguyen

Release Date 23 Mar 2005

About Buffalo Boy Movie

Buffalo Boy (2005) is a Movie in the Drama genre, available in Vietnamese. It is directed by Minh Nguyen-Vo. The cast includes Kim Long Thach, Thi Kieu Trinh Nguyen, The Lu Le. 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.