Thương Tín

Acting

Thương Tín

Born 1956-09-14 · Vietnam

Bùi Thương Tín (14 September 1956 - 8 December 2025) was a Vietnamese actor. Classically trained at the Saigon Academy of Performing Arts, he made his professional debut in theatre and cải lương where he gradually gained widespread recognition as the leading man beside Kim Cương in her self-written plays. Thuơng Tín began participating in film projects in early 1980s and quickly rose to national prominence for his role as Major Lưu Kỳ Vọng in the hit franchise "Ván bài lật ngửa" / Cards on the Table (1982 - 1987). His other notable roles include head of a bandit Bạch Hải Đường in "SBC," Sáu Tâm in "Biệt Động Sài Gòn," and Tám Thương in "Chiến trường chia nửa vầng trăng." As of 2015, Thuong Tin has participated in the largest amount of feature films in Vietnam, with a record of more than 200 productions.

Acting credits

Hollow poster
7.5

A young girl falls into a river and drowns. When her body is found in a remote village along the river, her uncle arrives to claim her body, only to find that she is very much alive. But when she returns to her family, unexplainable occurrences lead them to believe she is possessed.

Hollow

2014

Vụ Án Viên Đạn Lạc poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Vụ Án Viên Đạn Lạc

1986

No artwork available
NR

Hai Cũ, a notorious outlaw robbing from the rich to give to the poor, writes to Hồ Chí Minh hoping to secure pardon for his subordinates and is then sent to work as a foreman for a military company. The company's officer turns out to be the student who has accidentally helped him to escape the police many years ago.

Portrait of a Foreman

1986

Obsession poster
NR

During the war, a woman learns that her husband is an army deserter.

Obsession

1988

Cards on the Table: The Last Warning poster
NR

Luan continues to serve as the governor of Kien Hoa province and receives classified information sent by Y5, an agent installed by Kien Hoa Security in the Communist Party of Vietnam. He tries to identify Y5. The coup in 1960 ends with victory for the Republic's government, but unrest soon proves this result impermanent.

Cards on the Table: The Last Warning

1986

The Phoenix Affair poster
NR

A special force group join hands to crack an intricate network of drug smuggling operations.

The Phoenix Affair

1997

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NR

The 19th-century tragedy by Alexandre Dumas fils reimagined in the Saigon's nightclub scene of late 1990s, where a young man falls helplessly in love with the famed dancer Y Lan.

Dame of the Camellias

1994

Cards on the Table: Blue Sky in the Split of Leaf poster
NR

The Government of the Republic of Vietnam is subjected to military attacks and protests everywhere. Law 10-59 is enacted. Luan is sent to the United States for further military course training. Upon his return in early 1961, Ngo Dinh Diem decides to make him the governor of Kien Hoa province (Ben Tre today) to conduct the Pacification Program, with special privileges at his disposal.

Cards on the Table: Blue Sky in the Split of Leaf

1985

Peace at the Execution Site poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Peace at the Execution Site

1986

Highland F101 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Highland F101

1988

The Battlefield Divides The Moon poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Battlefield Divides The Moon

1990

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Lush Melodies

1987

Trapped poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Trapped

1990

No artwork available
NR

While undertaking secret operations, four undercover agents experience turmoil in their personal relationships.

At The River, White Flowers Flourish

1989

Love Song '68 poster
NR

Severely injured, Trang is taken by her Vietcong comrades to hide in a civilian’s house. There, she encounters An, the son of a South Vietnamese police officer. Contrary to his cold and stern appearance, An secretly orders his men to spare Trang’s comrades and sercretly brings her home to nurse her back to health. From that moment, a deep and complex bond begins to grow between the pair.

Love Song '68

1990

Standing In Front Of The Sea poster
NR

When a post-war fishing firm fails to meet its expected demand, the chief accountant begins falsifying records and cutting down on wages paid to the already struggling fishers.

Standing In Front Of The Sea

1982

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Tóc gió thôi bay

1993

The Secrets Beneath poster
NR

A police officer receives a worn-out and traumatised woman who begs him to take actions against a ruthless man that ruined her life, and only gives his moniker, Tín Mã Nàm, meaning “crazy horse” in Cantonese. As the officer sets out to search for Tín Mã Nàm, a network of intricate crimes, espionage and bloody murders beyond his imagination begins to unfold.

The Secrets Beneath

1986

To Catch A Thief 3: Solitary poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

To Catch A Thief 3: Solitary

1988

Cu Li Never Cries poster
7.0

A woman tries to cling onto dimming links to her past after inheriting a pygmy slow loris from her long-estranged husband; meanwhile, her niece prepares for marriage as the young couple ponders their gloomy future together. The present and the complex echoes of Vietnamese history are entwined before a contemplative and poetic perspective.

Cu Li Never Cries

2024

Saigon Rangers: Silence poster
NR

To keep up with his public guise, Tư Chung considers marriage with his "girlfriend" and tries to flatter some trust out of the CIA advisors who've been eyeing the pair, all the while following new orders to plan and launch an important offensive. The second part of a series based on a real-life organization involved in intelligence activities in South Vietnam before 1975.

Saigon Rangers: Silence

1986

To Catch a Thief 1: I Am Not Born For Imprisonment poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

To Catch a Thief 1: I Am Not Born For Imprisonment

1988

Saigon Rangers: The Meeting Place poster
8.0

Posing as a privileged man working for his wealthy industrialist uncle, Commander of the Saigon Rangers Tư Chung prepares with his comrades for a secret meeting with a coming Vietcong officer, alias "K9". The first part of a series based on a real-life organization involved in intelligence activities in South Vietnam before 1975.

Saigon Rangers: The Meeting Place

1986

To Catch A Thief 2: The Woman In Nun's Habit poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

To Catch A Thief 2: The Woman In Nun's Habit

1988