Gold Fish

Name: Gold Fish
Director: Fish Wang
Genre: Animation
Released: 2019-05-08
Rating: 6.0

2019 · 17 min · ★ 6.0 · Animation

A boy with a special talent discovers that he may never grow up. Those with power are devouring people's dreams and everyone is destined to be a slave. Can he break the rules and free the people or will people still blindly follow the rule?

Directed by Fish Wang · Written by Fish Wang

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