A Story Written with Water
7.3
Struggling with his true emotions, dreams, memories of the past and the reality Shizuo is about to marry, but is torn between his wife-to-be and the love to his mother.
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Cast
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Yasunori Irikawa
Shizuo Matsutani
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Shizuka Matsutani
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Yumiko Hashimoto
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Denzo Hashimoto
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Yoshishige Yoshida Director · Toshirō Ishidō Screenplay Rumiko Kōra Screenplay
First release November 23, 1965 · Produced in Japan · Production Chunichi Eigasha
Production
Gendai Eigasha
Production
Chunichi Eigasha
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Japan
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Languages
Original title
水で書かれた物語
Original language
Japanese
Spoken on screen
Japanese
Release dates
Japan · November 23, 1965
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Russia
November 1, 2016 · Limited theatrical · Retrospective of Yoshishige Yoshida (Moscow)
Taiwan
January 9, 2026 · Premiere · TFAI - Love, Death & Rebels: The Japanese New Wave
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