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The Golden Starfruit Tree. The Golden Starfruit Tree (Vietnamese: Ăn khế trả vàng, lit. 'Eating starfruit and paying with gold' or simply Vietnamese: Cây khế, lit. 'The starfruit tree') is a Vietnamese folktale. It tells the story of a poor farmer who is paid handsomely by a magical bird after letting it feed on his starfruit tree, and ...
Trương Ba's Soul, Butcher's Body (Hồn Trương Ba, da hàng thịt) is a Vietnamese folk tale about a gentle gardener who dies, but because of the carelessness of the gods he is reborn in the body of an oafish butcher.
Ba Giai and Tú Xuất are a fictional duo appearing in Northern Vietnam's popular folk tales. The two characters are typically nominally citizens under the early French colonial period, but stories may place them in earlier dynasties or later. The stories fall under the genre of Vietnamese comic or joke stories ( vi:Truyện cười Việt Nam ).
1958. The Quiet American. Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Audie Murphy, Michael Redgrave, Giorgia Moll. English Feature Film. This was the first American feature film shot in Vietnam and was considered by some to be an American propaganda film. 1959. Chung một giòng sông (Together on the Same River) Nguyễn Hồng Nghị.
Running time. 104 minutes. Country. France. Language. Vietnamese. Box office. $1,700,992 [1] The Scent of Green Papaya (Vietnamese: Mùi đu đủ xanh, French: L'Odeur de la papaye verte) is a 1993 Vietnamese-language French drama film directed by Vietnamese-French director Tran Anh Hung, and starring Tran Nu Yên-Khê, Man San Lu, and Thi Loc ...
Carambola, also known as star fruit, is the fruit of Averrhoa carambola, a species of tree native to tropical Southeast Asia. [1][2][3] The edible fruit has distinctive ridges running down its sides (usually 5–6). [1] When cut in cross-section, it resembles a star, giving it the name of star fruit. [1][2] The entire fruit is edible, usually ...
Chrysophyllum ottonis Klotzsch ex Miq. Chrysophyllum cainito is a tropical tree of the family Sapotaceae. It is native to the Isthmus of Panama, where it was domesticated. [3] It has spread to the Greater Antilles and the West Indies and is now grown throughout the tropics, including Southeast Asia. [4]
The Hundred-knot Bamboo Tree (also The Bamboo of 100 Joints) (Vietnamese: Cây tre trăm đốt) is a Vietnamese fable and parable, Vietnamese fairy tale and part of Vietnamese oral tradition. The story is included in anthologies of Vietnamese stories. [1] The story is about a laborer who is exploited by a wealthy landowner. In order to keep ...