
Through the Eye
2017, Chinese. Directed by Zhang Yang.
Inside a luxurious hundred-year-old mansion, the protagonist Ming Yi is a blind single mother, raising her daughter Huan Huan, and running her florist shop. After Ming Yi was treated by Gao Mu who is an ophthalmology doctor, she regains her sight due to a cornea donation and fell in love with the eye surgeon who operated on her, but her daughter Huan Huan is still emotionally attached to Ming Yi's ex-boyfriend, Zuo Lin. Therefore, in order to let her daughter get used to a new life, she moved into the old mansion, and from this point got entangled with the spirit of the mansion.
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
- Post-credits
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- Language
- Chinese
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- 12 May 2017
- Original title
- 借眼
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Through the Eye runs 95 minutes (1h 35m).
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Through the Eye isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 12 May 2017. (Checked 9 November 2026.)
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Who directed Through the Eye?
Through the Eye (2017) was directed by Zhang Yang and stars Xue Jianing, Benny Chan Ho-Man, Helena Law Lan.