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Return of the Cuckoo (2000)

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Original title
十月初五的月光
Cast
Julian Cheung, Charmaine Sheh, Nancy Sit, Steven Ma, Michael Tong, Anthony Tang, Irene Wong, Sherming Yiu
Genre
drama television series
Country
Hong Kong
Length
1 season, 20 episodes
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This series follows the lives of people living on a street in Macau. It focuses on a woman who returns to her hometown and reconnects with family and old friends.

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What happens

Return of the Cuckoo (Traditional Chinese: 十月初五的月光, literally "The Moonlight at the 5th of October [Street]", also known as 澳門街, literally "The Streets of Macao") is a 20-episode TVB drama broadcast between July 2000 and August 2000. It was originally produced to be a sitcom, however later edits made the production into a regular drama. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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