
36 Characters
1984-06-01 · 11 min · Not rated
A father teaches his son to read, illustrating the origin of Chinese characters by explaining pictographic characters. The film tells an interesting story through 36 active pictographic characters.
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- Directors
- A Da
- Production companies
- Shanghai Animation Film Studio
- Countries
- China
- Status
- Released
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