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Scenes of City Life is a film of genre Drama directed by Yuan Muzhi with Wu Yin
Scenes of City Life (1935)
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Add to a movie listScenes of City Life is a 1935 Chinese film directed by Yuan Muzhi. It is also translated as Cityscape.
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Wu Yin
Yuan Muzhi
(salesman)
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