The One Who Runs Away Is the Ghost
Haohao and Zhouzhou, two sisters aged five and eight, spend most of their days at an electronics market in Shenzhen.A year earlier, as new immigrants to the city, their parents opened a shop on the market’s ninth floor.The girls’ gaze turns the soulless world of electronics into a universe full of monsters and ghost stories that make life more magical.
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Haohao and Zhouzhou, two sisters aged five and eight, spend most of their days at an electronics market in Shenzhen. A year earlier, as new immigrants to the city, their parents opened a shop on the market’s ninth floor. The girls’ gaze turns the soulless world of electronics into a universe full of monsters and ghost stories that make life more magical.
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- Release date
- Nov 22, 2021
- Runtime
- 1h 12m
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- Language
- Mandarin
- Country
- China, Germany
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