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By Le Chou

December 30, 2023

For the first time in modern Vietnam cinema since the establishment of its box office tracking, six local films topped the Vietnam box office in 2023 and combined to capture more than a third of the total box office receipts. This dominating performance by local films is a stark reversal of 2022, when the top local film only placed sixth in the year's overall ranking behind Hollywood and other foreign films.

As 2023 comes to a close, here's a look at the 6 films (in order of box office performance) and the directors who helmed them:

1. Nhà Bà Nữ (The House of No Man)

Directed by Trấn Thành, starring Uyển Ân, Song Luân, and Trấn Thành.

Trấn Thành marks his solo directorial debut with Nhà Bà Nữ (The House of No Man), which unequivocally became the box office champion upon its release during Tết (Lunar New Year). The film stars...

Directed by Vo Thanh Hoa, whose “A Hundred Billion Key” was a huge commercial success, “Hustler vs Scammer” is an action comedy that is already among the 10 highest grossing films of all time at the Vietnam box office.

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Khoa is an amateur hustler who just can't get a break, with all his efforts resulting in disaster, and his debt increasing. Eventually, he decides to hit on bigger targets and moves to the playground for the rich and famous of Vietnam – Phu Quoc Island. There he stumbles upon a professional scammer, Tu, who, after some tribulations between the two, decides to take him in his group, which includes Uncle Nam and Ma Lai, and train him in order to teach him how to hit bigger fish. The efforts of the group are extravagant to say the least, but success comes consecutively,...

Specialty distributor 3388 Films has set an October 28 U.S. theatrical release for Vietnamese comedy A Hundred Billion Key. The movie will have its North American premiere at the Newport Beach Film Festival a week prior on October 19. Check out the trailer below.

From actor-turned-director Võ Thanh Hoà, Chìa Khoá Trăm Tỷ (A Hundred Billion Key) is adapted from Kenji Uchida’s award-winning 2012 Japanese film Key of Life. The story follows a notorious assassin who unexpectedly loses his memory and his fortune at the local bathhouse, setting in motion a new life of surprises. Kiều Minh Tuấn, Thu Trang, Jun Vũ and Anh Tú star.

Produced by Orange Films, A Hundred Billion Key originally debuted in Vietnam during Lunar New Year last February, marking the return of movies to cinemas after Covid closures. It opened at No. 1 going on to gross over 70B Vnd (3M). Newport Beach has selected it...

"If you witnessed it, why didn't you report it?" Cj Entertainment has debuted a full-length official trailer for a Vietnamese crime thriller titled Invisible Evidence in English. The film is opening in Vietnam next month, but doesn't have any other worldwide release dates yet. "Right in the alley she seemed familiar with, right after her mother's call. What is the truth behind this disappearance?" The plot involves a blind woman reporting an incident with a taxi driver that she believes was a murder. But another person comes forward and reports something entirely different. Both are being watched secretly by the assassin, so he can kill the witness. Will she figure out what's going on and stop him before it's too late? The film stars Phuong Anh Dao, Quang Tuan, Otis, Thuân Phát, Ai Phuong, and Anh Tu. This looks extremely intense, with all kinds of scenes in the night and the rain.