Audio Format: Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround
Video Format: Widescreen
Languages: Mandarin, Vietnamese
Subtitles: Chinese, English, Thai, Bahasa Malaysia, Vietnamese
Region Code: ALL
Year Made: 1996
Running Time: 129
Winner of the award for Best Picture at the 1995 Venice Film Festival.
The story is set in modern-day Ho Chi Mlb City, Vieinam, A young man works as a cyclo. His parents are dead. He lives with his grandfather and sisters in a poor neighbourhood. Paithful to the teachings of his father the cyclo strives to improve his lot in life. But someone steals his means of making a living. The vehicle was rented form his boss,a woman with a crazy son the cyclo's age, to pay her back, the young man is forced to commit acts of sabotage and very qutckly, he is caught up in the spiral of crime. Easy money and the impanity of his actions give the cyclo a feeling of power and make him want to join the gang run 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, innovence is at stake...
