As part of the project, from September 19-29, the film group will shoot scenes in Ho Chi Minh City, Quang Nam
and An Giang provinces where the Oc Eo culture is found. The Japanese
funded film will be approved by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and
Tourism before it is shown in Japan.
Discovered by a French scholar Louis Malleret and made public in
1944, the Oc Eo culture grew and developed in the southern delta,
largely in An Giang, from the first to the sixth century AD.
In addition to An Giang, the scientists have discovered over 100
sites belonging to Oc Eo culture across the Mekong Delta provinces and
parts of the south-eastern region with more than 50,000 artefacts made
from various materials such as terra-cotta, stone, agate and metal.
The most common is ceramics, reflecting the cultural identity and origin of the culture.