The Water Margin (1973)

水滸伝

The Water Margin is a Japanese television series based on Water Margin, one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. The novel details the trials and tribulations of 108 outlaws during the Song Dynasty. This adaptation follows Lin Chung and his clashes with the local government official Kao Chiu. The Water Margin is famous for its, sometimes obscure, but memorable philosophical quotes, such as "Do not despise the snake for having no horns,for who is to say it will not become a dragon?""

The Water Margin

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Seasons

Season 1

Season 1

Season 2

Season 2

Episodes season 1

  • 1x1

    Nine dozen heroes and one wicked man

  • 1x2

    None ever escape alive

  • 1x3

    Both at last will reach the sea

  • 1x4

    Ever busy are the gods of love

  • 1x5

    A treasure of gold and jade

  • 1x6

    Bandits who steal are executed

  • 1x7

    How easy to die, how hard to live

  • 1x8

    A man's only happiness

  • 1x9

    A dutiful son and the love of a brother

  • 1x10

    Escape is not freedom

  • 1x11

    The girl who loved the flower priest

  • 1x12

    Kao chiu loses his heart

  • 1x13

    When liang shan po robbed the poor

Episodes season 2

  • 2x1

    A death for love, more deaths from greed

  • 2x2

    The bravest tiger is first killed

  • 2x3

    Heaven aims the master's arrow

  • 2x4

    The traps of love and hate

  • 2x5

    A foolish sage who got involved

  • 2x6

    Mourn the slaughter of so many

  • 2x7

    The war to end all wars

  • 2x8

    Death of a great man

  • 2x9

    Lin chung is beaten

  • 2x10

    A concubine's dowry

  • 2x11

    Liang shan po and the millionaire

  • 2x12

    Knight of the long sword

  • 2x13

    The dynasty of kao

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