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12 Storeys

十二楼

1997

Over a single day in a Singapore public-housing block, the tangled, quietly desperate lives of its residents — a lonely spinster, a henpecked husband, a strict older brother — quietly intersect. Eric Khoo's mordant, compassionate drama of urban isolation.

Part of 10 Essential Singaporean Films

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