Ngo Quang Hai

Directing

Ngo Quang Hai

Born 1967-04-30 · Hải Phòng, Vietnam

Ngô Quang Hải (30 April 1967) is a Vietnamese actor, director, screenwriter and producer.

Acting credits

Indochine poster
7.0

In colonial Vietnam, dashing French naval captain Jean-Baptiste, wealthy plantation owner Éliane Devries, and her adopted Vietnamese daughter Camillevare form the three points of a cross-cultural romantic triangle. As the struggle against European imperialism sweeps Indochina, Jean-Baptiste and Camille have to choose sides and Éliane faces the emotionally difficult challenge of raising the child of her daughter and ex-lover.

Indochine

1992

The Quiet American poster
6.5

Cynical British journalist Fowler falls in love with a young Vietnamese woman but is dismayed when a naïve U.S. official also begins vying for her attention. In retaliation, Fowler informs the communists that the American is selling arms to their enemy.

The Quiet American

2002

Cyclo poster
6.9

Follows a young cyclo driver on his poverty-driven descent into criminality in modern-day Ho Chi Minh City. The boy's struggles to scratch out a living for his two sisters and grandfather in the mean streets of the city lead to petty crime on behalf of a mysterious Madame from whom he rents his cyclo.

Cyclo

1995

Three Seasons poster
7.2

The residents of Ho Chi Minh City face modernization amid widespread poverty. A retired American Marine arrives on a search for his daughter, whom he abandoned at the end of the Vietnam War. Elsewhere, a cyclo driver falls for a troubled prostitute and schemes to raise money so he can spend time with her. Additionally, a young women begins harvesting lotuses for a writer suffering from leprosy, and a child trinket seller loses his traveling case.

Three Seasons

1999

The Vertical Ray of the Sun poster
6.6

Hanoi comes across almost picture-perfect in director Tran Anh Hung's beautiful, elegiac tale about the lives and loves of three Vietnamese sisters. A mood characteristic of Hung's films is set early on with the vivid sounds of birds, insects and water and the way the lighting enhances the subtle use of color. They all combine to gem-like effect here.

The Vertical Ray of the Sun

2000

Song of the Stork poster
7.0

A story about young men who had to go war to protest their country. Each of them has his own story.

Song of the Stork

2003

Wild Reeds poster
NR

A soldier returns home after the war, only to finds out his family thinks he is dead, and his wife has married another man.

Wild Reeds

1993

No artwork available
NR

A man reminisces about his past labouring on the rivers of Southern Vietnam

Chuyện ngã bảy

1996

The Return poster
8.0

In the years following the American war a young woman from Hanoi teaches in a rural school in the south. There she meets a troubled young man, and they have a brief romance that she recalls wistfully years later in her unhappy marriage.

The Return

1994

Hanoi: Winter of '46 poster
8.0

Toward the end of 1946, residents from all walks of Hanoi struggle to avoid—and eventually accept—the possibility of a full-blown war.

Hanoi: Winter of '46

1999

Behind the camera