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Underwater Love (2011)
35-year-old Asuka works in a lakeside fish factory. She’s about to be married to her boss, Taki, but one day, she encounters a kappa – a water sprite found in Japanese folklore – and learns that the creature is in fact the reborn form of Aoki, an old crush who’d drowned when they were 17.
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35-year-old Asuka works in a lakeside fish factory. She’s about to be married to her boss, Taki, but one day, she encounters a kappa – a water sprite found in Japanese folklore – and learns that the creature is in fact the reborn form of Aoki, an old crush who’d drowned when they were 17.
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Genre:Fantasy, Romance, Comedy
Written By:Shinji Imaoka, Fumio Moriya
In Theaters:4/22/2011
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Runtime:87 minutes
Studio:INTERFILM, Kokuei Company, Rapid Eye Movies
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