Film

The Water Magician

7.219331h 39mDrama Romance Crime

Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Year: 1933

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.

Top cast

Takako Irie

Taki no Shiraito

Tokihiko Okada

Kinya Murakoshi

Ichirō Sugai

Gozô Iwabuchi

Bontarō Miake

Shinzô

Kumeko Urabe

Ogin

Suzuko Taki

Nadeshiko

Kôji Ôizumi

Kenji

Joe Ohara

Tanjirô

Etsuzô Oki

Old Detective

Nobuo Kosaka

Detective Takamura

Hirotoshi Murata

Nankin

Directed by

Kenji Mizoguchi

Written by

Yasunaga Higashibōjō, Shinji Masuda, Kennosuke Tateoka

Produced by

Takako Irie, Yoshizo Mogi, Takejiro Tsunoda