Vietnam
The Vietnamese Noodle-Stall Worker in Left-Handed Girl Is a Real Court Interpreter
Left-Handed Girl went from Cannes to the Oscar shortlist to two more Taiwanese awards in July 2026. The Vietnamese woman working the noodle stall on screen is Chen Chiu-liu, born in Ho Chi Minh City in 1983, a shoe-factory worker who married into Taiwan in 2003.