Where the Sun Shines Bright

In "Where the Sun Shines Bright", an 18-year-old boy facing the uncertainty of adulthood finds his own story reflected in the lives of four children in the same village – parallel journeys of left-behind childhood shaped by resilience and the fragile brightness of growing up.

Cast

Jin Sha

as

Weng Qi

as

Kexin Yang

as

Yikai Liu

as

Fang Lexuan

as

Anton Kind

as

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