Auntie Lan

Auntie Lan

1967 · 103 min · ★ 7.0 · Romance, Drama

The contemporary issue of single mothers is sensitively handled in this melodrama as a young woman must decide whether she will tell the new man in her life the real truth or forever remain the child's auntie Lan? (Celestial Pictures sypnosis)

Directed by Griffin Yueh Feng · Written by Griffin Yueh Feng

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