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River Returns

River Returns

Mar 22, 2025
108 min
DramaFantasy
8.5/ 10
2 votes

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In 1958, as a deadly typhoon approaches, a young boy embarks on a perilous journey to a haunted mountain pool, determined to calm a sorrowful spirit whose grief has cursed the village with devastating floods.

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