Left-Handed Girl
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A single mother and her two daughters return to Taipei after several years of living in the countryside to open a stand at a buzzing night market. Each in their way will have to adapt to this new environment to make ends meet and maintain the family unity. But when their traditional grandfather forbids his youngest left-handed granddaughter from using her “devil hand,” generations of family secrets begin to unravel.
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- Shih-Ching Tsou, Sean Baker, Mike Goodridge, Jean Labadie, Alice Labadie
- Shih-Ching Tsou, Sean Baker
- Sean Baker
- Ko-Chin Chen, Tzu-Hao Kao
- Shih-Yuan Ma, Janel Tsai, Nina Ye, Teng-Hui Huang
- Alex C. Lo, Neill Barham, Aditya Chand, Jennifer Jao
- Left-Handed Girl Film Production, LHG Films LTD, Good Chaos, Le Pacte
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