Movies: Bùi Thạc Chuyên

In 1967, as the Vietnam War raged, a Vietnamese revolutionary guerrilla team became the U.S. military's top target—charged with safeguarding a secret group of intelligence agents at all costs....

The film tells the scary, haunting adventures of three medical university students who accidentally discover a species of wormwood that is made with human blood in an ancient wooden box containing a piece of withered tree and amulet. He placed it dee...

Set in the poor Mekong Delta coastal village of Thơm Rơm, the film follows the lives of three women, whose love lives are unusual and unique to their nature. The film is narrated from Hau's perspective, as she experiences life with a husband who only...

Soon after her wedding, newlywed Duyen's excitement begins to fade as she realizes her young husband is not only naive but overly occupied by his job and doting mother. As her marriage goes unconsummated and her emotional isolation grows, she reaches...

In Bình Thuận, a South Central coastal province in Vietnam, a former Republic soldier turned farmer went into clearing landmines for over ten years, reclaiming the soil for himself and others, generating also controversies around the legitimacy and s...

Tai, a soldier in South Vietnam, had 2 wives living in 2 different places. When the war ended in 1975, he brought his second wife and her child to a new land which was littered with mines and bombs leftover from the war. Tai earned his living by remo...

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In Chase Of The Windy Devil Gang tells the story of a group of criminals under the notorious titular group —one of the city’s most feared. On land and waters alike, even within the walls of ordinary homes—nowhere seems safe from their reign of terror...

A short film by Bùi Thạc Chuyên that won third prize in the short film category at the Cannes Film Festival in 2000....