Film

Buffalo Boy

2004 · 1h 42m · Drama

IMDb

6.9

Metacritic

72

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.

Lê Thế Lữ

Kim

Kiều Trinh

Ban

Nguyễn Hữu Thành

Dinh, Kim's Father

Zan Sram Kra

Det

Van Be Truong

Hai Tich

Ánh Hoa

Bà Hai

Nguyễn Thị Thắm

Ba Tu

Hoang Nhan Vo

Lap

Trương Quang Thịnh

Quang

Nguyễn Văn Đây

Xuyen

Thạch Kim Long

Thanh

Thi Thu Tam Cao

Lam

Huu Phuoc Nguyen

Thieu

Chau Nguyen

Cha Ban

Trung Truc Thach

Kim, Age 5

Thành Lũy

Tax agent

• Minh Nguyen-VoDirector · Writer
• Nam SonWriter
• Olivier DuboisProducer
• Duc Tien LeProducer
• Vincent CanartProducer
• Muriel MerlinProducer
• Tôn-Thât TiêtOriginal Music Composer

Release date

August 14, 2004

Status

Released

Original language

Vietnamese

Runtime

1h 42m

Genres

Drama

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