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Trần Anh Hùng (born December 23, 1962) is a French film director of Vietnamese ancestry.

He was born in Đà Nẵng, Central Vietnam, and emigrated to France when he was 12 following the fall of Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War in 1975.
Being exposed to and loving classic films, Tran indicated the immense effect they had upon spurring his film-making desires. Admittedly, Bergman, Tarkovsky and Kurosawa all had a hand in the evolution of his directorial aspirations.

His Oscar-nominated debut (for Best Foreign Film) was with the The Scent of Green Papaya (1993) which also won two top prizes at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival, and his followup Cyclo (1995) featured top Hong Kong movie star Tony Leung Chiu Wai, also eventually nabbing a top prize at the Venice International Film Festival. The Vertical Ray of the Sun, released in 2000, was the third film in what many consider now to be his “Vietnam trilogy.”

After a sabbatical, it was officially announced that Tran is back behind the helm with the noir psychological thriller I Come With the Rain (2009), which features a star-studded international cast including Josh Hartnett and Elias Koteas.

It was announced in July 2008 that Tran would direct an adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s novel Norwegian Wood. The film will be released in Japan in December 2010.

Tran’s wife, actress Trần Nữ Yên Khê, has starred in every single one of his films to date. —Wikipedia