TV Series

Series Name:	The Water Margin (Shui Hu Zhuan)
Format:	TV Series
IMDB:	IMDB Page
Years:	1977
Country:	International
Language:	Japanese
Genre:	Action, Adventure, Costume Drama
Rating:	6.0 Rate
Collection:	Seen It Wishlist
Community:	9 Have Seen
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Selected Cast	Atsuo Nakamura as Lin Chung
	Sanae Tsuchida as Hu San-Niang
	Kei Satô as Kao Chiu
	Isamu Nagato as Lu Ta

Notes

Chinese & Japanese production
China Central Television (CCTV)
Nippon Television Network (NTV)

The UK screening was dubbed into English and narrated by Bert Kwouk.

Comments and Reviews


TheJudge 27th Jun 2015		Oh how I remember my school-friends and me forever quoting the line from the opening: "Do not despise the snake for having no horns; for who is to say it will not become a dragon."



biffbampow 13th May 2015		This is one of those shows which I keep meaning to revisit but then when the opportunity arises, I begin having second thoughts! I did see it all when it was first shown - my family loved it, but these were the days before subtitles... I am partially deaf and I rely enormously on lip reading... so with a dubbed series like this, I found it completely unintelligible so I never ever had any clue what it was all about! I do remember finding it amusing and strange and that theme tune but otherwise, I can't recall anything else! Maybe one day I'll brave it and look at an episode or two again but what sort of memories it will bring back, goodness knows!



BiggieTembo 13th May 2015		Shown in the mid-late 70s on BBC2 in the UK. It always clashed with the news program my Dad wanted to watch on BBC1 (Nationwide ?), and after 5 minutes my Dad used to end up watching it with me and brothers anyway, because it was so, well, not like anything we'd see before. There was a hero called Ling Chung and he was of course the epitomy of cool. As far as I remember, he was just going around righting wrongs with a bunch of equally cool guys, each with their own special super-hero-almost thang: There was one guy with a huge hammer that he used to fight with, another lady who carried a sword on her back, and as I recall, while fighting this sword would split into two and suddenly she'd be there with a sword in each hand. She must have impressed me when I was 5 because I remember thinking that she was kind of nice... but couldn't work out why... Also distant dream-like memories conjure a baddie who was covered in dragon tattoos? I'm sure somebody remembers... Last time I saw this, it was 1977! A great series - with the bizarre wordplay overdubbing of Burt Kwouk - Kato from the Pink Panther films. No-one really understood the strange nonsensical left-field proverbs that were in the script - but they sounded all the more cool for it.

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