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Urashima Taro: a Japanese folk tale

United States, 1979
film

An animated adaptation of a Japanese folk tale about Urashima Taro, who, after doing a good deed for a sea turtle, is transported to a kingdom beneath the sea..

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Japanese boy: the story of Taro

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The Greatest story untold

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The Figurehead

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