1.0
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Oxhide (2006)
January 1, 20061h 50mZH
6.0
11 votes
Overview
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.
Director
Liu JiayinWriter
Where to Watch
Streaming availability for India
Stream
Top Billed Cast
Status
Released
Original Language
Mandarin
Budget
N/A
Revenue
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User Reviews
CinemaSerf
6.0There is one scene in this film where the dad is explaining to his family about his own father’s cure for constipation. It involved a chopstick and a sugary mixture. Are you envisaging now what I was a few hours ago? Eye watering stuff and an example of the kind of conversational dialogue we follow from this family as they spend a few days together. The cast consists of the director (Jiayin Liu) and her real parents Huifen Jai (mum) and Zaiping Liu (dad) and they live in a tiny flat in Beijing - that might as well have been a cave; supplementing their meagre income by turning ox hides into lux…
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