Girl from Hunan

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Girl from Hunan ★★★ 1986

Turn-of-the-century China, a 12-year-old girl is married to a two-year-old boy in a typical arranged marriage. She grows into womanhood treating her toddler husband with sibling affection, but conducts a secret love affair with a farmer. Intolerant village laws against adultry place her life in jeopardy. In Mandarin with English subtitles. 99m/C VHS . Na Renhua, Deng Xiaotuang, Yu Zhang; D: Xie Fei.

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