Once Upon a Time in Vietnam (2012) with diva Thanh Van Ngo
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Fantasy Vietnamese Actioner in the Style of the Spaghetti Westerns
original
Vietnamese title: LUA PHAT [Buddha Fire]
director:
Dustin Nguyen
starring: Thanh Van Ngo · Dustin Nguyen · Roger Yuan · Thai Hoa · Ngoc
Diep · Hieu Hien
Dustin Nguyen (from
21 Jump Street, the TV series not the movie) directs and
co-stars in this exceptional film that more-than-causually borrows style
and story from Sergio Leone's epic Spaghetti Western ONCE
UPON A TIME IN THE WEST. Set in some mystical time - not the past
and certainly not the present - here is the story of beautiful monk warrior
Ahn who deserted the Emperor's tyrannical army and is now living a secret
life in a remote border town. Enter Captain Dao on a government mission
of rounding up Vietnamese army fugitives. His investigations have led
him to Ahn's town where a deadly conflict is raging between her and the
Emperor's crime boss. Captain Dao must now choose between his job (and
oath to the emperor) and the people fighting to preserve the town.
Sweeping,
epic fantasies - based loosely on Vietnamese folklore - became boxoffice
gold during the early 2000's with this film leading
the parade. Other impressive entries include LADY
ASSASSIN, LEGEND
OF THACH SANH, and BLOODY
VENGEANCE, all released in 2013.
A Vietnamese
film; widescreen, totally uncut version (115 min.), in Vietnamese or Thai
language with removable English subtitles, DVD encoded for ALL REGIONS
NTSC, playable on any American machine.
