Youth, Youth
Still a schoolboy, 18-year-old Yinchen has trouble finding life in a city he doesn’t belong to. Friendship grows on the streets until, one night, his friend KK draws him into a precarious business.
Still a schoolboy, 18-year-old Yinchen has trouble finding life in a city he doesn’t belong to. Friendship grows on the streets until, one night, his friend KK draws him into a precarious business.
Hidenari Fujieda
Yinchen
Kenny Zhaokun Ding
KK
Lilian Zhou
Still a schoolboy, 18-year-old Yinchen has trouble finding life in a city he doesn’t belong to. Friendship grows on the streets until, one night, his friend KK draws him into a precarious business.
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