A Handful of Rice
68 mins
The prologue shows a Swedish home, where a family discusses what "a handful of rice" can mean. The action then moves to Thailand and shows the life of a Thai couple, Pó Chai and Mé Ying, and their lives of joy and hardship in the jungle growing rice.
Gunnar Höglund
Svensson, boy
Pó Chai
The man
Leonard Bucknall Eyre
Narrator (U.S. version) (voice)
Mé Ying
The woman
Gunnar Jonason
Original Music Composer