Đặng Nhật Minh

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This is a Vietnamese name; the family name is Đặng, but is often simplified as Dang in English-language text. According to Vietnamese custom, this person properly should be referred to by the given name Minh.

Đặng Nhật Minh (b. Huế, Vietnam, 1938) is one of Vietnam's foremost film directors. He began making documentary films around 1965 and is the first Vietnamese person to be awarded the Nikkei Asia Prize for Culture, in 1999.^[1] His films have won several prizes at international film festivals.

He is the former General Secretary of the Vietnam Cinema Association.