Shadow Days(2014)
Escaping a dubious past, Liang Renwei and his pregnant girlfriend Pomegranate return to his home village. The couple plans to remain until the child is born, then see what opportunities arise. While he takes a job enforcing the One Child Policy quotas, she begins to see faceless ghosts of the past.
Movie: Shadow Days
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Ren Wei
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Escaping a dubious past, Liang Renwei and his pregnant girlfriend Pomegranate return to his home village. The couple plans to remain until the child is born, then see what opportunities arise. While he takes a job enforcing the One Child Policy quotas, she begins to see faceless ghosts of the past.
Release Date
2014-02-07
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7.1
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3.5 startsTagline
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