Tất Bình (full name Đặng Tất Bình, b.
16 August 1949 in Hanoi) is a Vietnamese actor and director, and the former director of the Feature Film Studio 1.
Before starting his career in film, he worked as a theater actor and a voice actor.
Tất Bình began gaining recognition through his first role onscreen, as inspector Phương in the film "The Last Hope" (Hy vọng cuối cùng, d.
Trần Phương, 1981).
He later co-directed with Trần Phương in the film "One Who Looks for a Forgotten past" (Người đi tìm dĩ vãng, 1992); then went on to direct the TV feature "The Notebook of Life" (Cuốn sổ ghi đời, 1994).
In 1998, he made "Moon on Foreign Land" (Trăng trên đất khách), a Vietnamese-Russian co-production and the first Vietnamese film to focus on people working and living far from their home country.
In 2002, Tất Bình released "The Backstage Slap" (Cái tát sau cánh gà), which became one of the two Vietnamese entries into the 47th Asia-Pacific Film Festival.
He continues to act and direct in the years following.
A theater troupe reunites in excitement for a new production after having been out of work for a long time, with the performers and their mentor having gone their separate ways to make ends meet. But the bitter fallout from the failed romance between the lead actor and the lead actress—a romance as long ago as her famously beautiful hair—threatens the play's success.
The dynamics of a Vietnamese rural village change when an urban woman returns to the village she originally belonged to and begins a love triangle.
The year is 1950 and an English couple, Louise and Michael, have arrived in French-occupied Indochina to cover a story on a French-owned rubber plantation. They are to be the guests of the enigmatic plantation overseer, Daniel, and his beautiful yet difficult daughter Viola, at their elegant, decaying villa amid a tropical jungle. Michael and Louise hope that some time spent working in an exotic location will help reignite the passion in their floundering marriage. Instead they become unwittingly involved in the personal, sexual and political tensions of their hosts. Daniel is desperate to hold onto a way of life no longer possible in a country struggling for independence, bringing him into conflict with not only his daughter but also with his adopted country.
Returning to Vietnam after many years of studying abroad, a doctorate in atomic force Thai Duong entered an unimaginable reality. Many funny situations took place in his family when he was pondering over choosing a job in a new environment. Thai Duong was tricked into losing money, and his father and brother Loc Ton performed a risky mission to earn money: buying liquidated bombs.
In early-80s' Hanoi, a director of a state-owned factory welcomes his wife, a journalist, into a changed home after she spent some time away. As she struggles to make sense of their new wealth, he struggles to avoid embezzlement charges by a poor inspector—who turns out to be an old friend of hers.