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The Water Magician

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IMDB ID: tt0024641

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Taki no Shiraito is a very independent young woman with a famous water juggling act in a travelling carnival troupe. She falls in love with an orphaned carriage driver Kinya Murakoshi, and pledges to put him through law school in Tokyo. She always encloses money in her letters to him, until one hard winter there is no work to be found.

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Takako Irie

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Tokihiko Okada

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Ichirō Sugai

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Bontarō Miake

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Kumeko Urabe

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Suzuko Taki

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Kôji Ôizumi

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Joe Ohara

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Etsuzô Oki

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Nobuo Kosaka

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Kenji Mizoguchi

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Izumi Kyōka

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Shinji Masuda

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Kennosuke Tateoka

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Yasunaga Higashibōjō

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