Buffalo Boy
2005 · 102 MIN · IMDB 6.9 · 626 VOTES · DIR. Minh Nguyen-Vo
Overview
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.
Dialogue Timeline — 727 lines
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00:01:03 I have always lived in Ca Mau, with the dry and flooding seasons.
00:04:37 just the other day.
00:07:10 You're in no fit state!
00:09:55 and tigers in twos or threes...
00:16:41 I'm Kim, from Hon Soc.
00:20:28 We'll leave before dawn.
00:24:51 Here, we risk being attacked.
00:27:49 You're a band of vagabonds and crooks!
00:34:58 These are its horns and hide. They're heavy!
00:38:48 for more than 30 years.
00:41:30 Do people know I'm working to pay them back?
00:44:27 Nobody will entrust a buffalo to a Khmer like me.
00:47:27 She's a Viet. I got her pregnant.
00:50:11 We're celebrating our reunion! Shall we take Quang?
00:55:42 Take this money.
00:59:39 I'll give you this shirt.
01:04:06 we have two choices.
01:06:48 Hurry. The current's carrying him off.
01:09:24 Wager on a lout if you want! As long as I have money to drink...
01:14:38 Back to the sky.
01:18:25 It's been a while... I didn't believe it!
01:20:57 Where did you bury him?
01:26:20 Tomorrow, we'll try looking where the current took it.
01:34:37 I stayed to raise Thieu
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed727
Dialogue density7.1 lines / min
First line00:01:03
Final line01:34:37
Production Record
DirectorMinh Nguyen-Vo
LanguageVI
IMDb votes626