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This Transient Life

This Transient Life

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1970
2h 23m
7.4(47 votes)
Drama

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Near a remote Buddhist monastery, a young man falls in love with his sister and gets her pregnant. After a monk finds out, the young man becomes an assistant to a master sculptor, only to proceed to complicate matters with his affairs.

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