
A Story Written with Water
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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Top Cast

Mariko Okada
Shizuka Matsutani

Yasunori Irikawa
Shizuo Matsutani

Ruriko Asaoka
Yumiko Hashimoto

Isao Yamagata
Denzo Hashimoto

Keiko Yumi
Geisha
Masakazu Kuwayama
Yamazaki

Shin Kishida
Takao Matsutani
Takao Nakamura
Murata

Aiko Masuda
Mitsue Hashimoto
Kimiko Kayo
Misako Yamatani
Kaoru Mimura
Kyōko Shimojima

Fudeko Tanaka
Old Woman
Hideaki Satô
Wataru Nakagawa
Young Shizuo
Crew
Cinematographers
Editors
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