Le-Van Kiet
Le-Van Kiet is a Vietnamese-born filmmaker who wrote and directed Furie, a martial-arts crime thriller. Furie was selected as the Vietnamese entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards and broke the record for highest-grossing Vietnamese film in history.
Kiet's debut film Dust of Life (2006) is coming-of-age drama incorporating an episode from his own personal life - the exodus of Vietnamese boat people in the 1970s and 1980s. Since then, drama and thriller have taken turns in his work. His horror film House in the Alley (2012) was a great success in Vietnam and his film Gentle (2014), based on a short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky, had its premiere in Busan International Film Festival. Kiet is a graduate of UCLA's School of Theater, Film and Television.
Movies
6.4
A beautiful, strong-willed young royal refuses to wed the cruel sociopath to whom she is betrothed and is kidnapped and locked in a remote tower of her father’s castle. With her scorned, vindictive suitor intent on taking her father’s throne, the princess must protect her family and save the kingdom.
7.9
- Feb 22, 2019
- Vietnamese
When traffickers kidnap her daughter from their village, vengeful Hai Phuong returns to Saigon -- and her outlaw roots -- to take down the abductors.