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Oxhide

Feb 13, 2005 | IMDB 6

110 min Watch Now

Drama, Documentary

Director Liu Jiayin casts her parents and herself as fictionalized members of a Beijing family that has fallen on hard times and ekes out an existence by making bags out of oxhide for sale.

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Jia Huifen, Liu Jiayin, Liu Zaiping

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