Underwater Love
Apr 22 2011
•1h 27m
•Fantasy, Romance, Comedy
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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Sawa Masaki
Asuka Kawaguchi
Yoshirô Umezawa
Tetsuya Aoki
Ai Narita
Reiko Shima
Mutsuo Yoshioka
Hajime Taki
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