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The Water Magician
Film / 1933

The Water Magician

Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi
DramaRomanceCrime

★ 7.2/10Audience rating

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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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.

Cast

Takako IrieTaki no Shiraito Tokihiko OkadaKinya Murakoshi Ichirō SugaiGozô Iwabuchi Bontarō MiakeShinzô Kumeko UrabeOgin Suzuko TakiNadeshiko Kôji ÔizumiKenji Joe OharaTanjirô Etsuzô OkiOld Detective Nobuo KosakaDetective Takamura Hirotoshi MurataNankin

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