Echoes of the Rainbow(2010)
Life was a hurricane in 1969. Love became the roof for a shoe-maker's family.
Told through the eyes of sticky-fingered eight-year-old boy Big Ears, Echoes of the Rainbow takes place in a close-knit grassroots community in 1960s Hong Kong. Big Ears' mother and father run the neighborhood shoe store, and his older brother Desmond is every family's dream son - an outstanding athlete with grades worthy of Hong Kong's best school.
Movie: Echoes of the Rainbow
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Mr. Law
Mrs. Law
Big Ears
Desmond / Big Ears (teenager)
Flora
Mr. Law's Brother
Grandmother
Mr. Ho
Miss Chan
Goldfish Seller
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