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Ngô Xuân Diệu (Vietnamese: [swən˧˧ ziəw˧˨ʔ]; February 2, 1916 – December 18, 1985) was a Vietnamese poet, journalist, short-story writer, and literary critic, best known as one of the prominent figures of the twentieth-century Thơ mới (New Poetry) Movement.
Saigon, I Love You (Vietnamese: Sài Gòn, anh yêu em) is a Vietnamese romantic comedy film produced by Ly Minh Thang in 2016.In 2017 it won a Golden Kite Prize by the Vietnam Cinematography Association for the best feature film, the highest distinction in Vietnamese cinema.
Vietnamese poetry originated in the form of folk poetry and proverbs. Vietnamese poetic structures include Lục bát, Song thất lục bát, and various styles shared with Classical Chinese poetry forms, such as are found in Tang poetry; examples include verse forms with "seven syllables each line for eight lines," "seven syllables each line for four lines" (a type of quatrain), and "five ...
The Tale of Kieu was the inspiration for the 2007 movie Saigon Eclipse, which moved the storyline into a modern Vietnamese setting with a modern-day immigrant Kiều working in the massage parlor industry in San Francisco's Mission District to support her family back in Vietnam. Additionally, Burton Wolfe directed a musical adaptation which ...
Dumb Luck (Số đỏ) is a 1936 novel by the famous Vietnamese novelist, Vũ Trọng Phụng.The novel served as a contemporary critique on the Vietnamese late colonial society by the means of satirizing the rising bourgeoisie.
Trọn với tình (True to Love) Cánh đồng ma (The Ghost Field) Made in Hong Kong with Vietnamese actors and dialogue 1938: Trận phong ba (The Storm) Made in Hong Kong with Vietnamese actors and dialogue Late 1930s: Khúc khải hoàn (The Song of Triumph) Toét sợ ma (Toét Is Scared of Ghosts)
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A proverb [or proverbial phrase] is usually defined, an instructive sentence, or common and pithy saying, in which more is generally designed than expressed, famous for its peculiarity or elegance, and therefore adopted by the learned as well as the vulgar, by which it is distinguished from counterfeits which want such authority