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Shih Mu-heo was born in Japan 73 years ago. His fisherman father died at sea when he was an infant. His mother, a pearl diver, was murdered when he was seven. An uncle taught Shih and his little sister how to beg in the cities. Later, he sold them to a traveling circus where Shih learned over 200 magic tricks, and his sister became a trapeze artist. When he was 15, his sister fell to her death during a performance. At 25, he joined the Japanese army and was sent — along with his wife and child — as part of the Japanese force occupying Taiwan. One day he returned to the barracks to find the bodies of his wife and son. The boy had been strangled by the mother who had committed sepuku (suicide with a sharp knife). She left a note on the little boy’s body explaining that she had been raped by one of Shih’s superior…
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