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The Water Margin

on BBC Two England

A free-wheeling adaptation of the Chinese classic in ten episodes.
A thousand years ago, in China, the souls of 108 knights were reborn to fight the tyranny and corruption of the government. They lived by their wits and their swords in the marshy lands of the water margins of Lian Shan Po. Lin Chung was their leader and never a day went by without a damsel to be rescued or a wrong to be put right. Or so the legend says ...
2: A Butcher Gets the Chop and Lin Chung Changes his Mind
English adaptation by DAVID WEIR with the voices of MICHAEL MCCLAIN , MIRIAM MARGOLYES PETER MARINKER , JOHN BLYTHE DAVID BLAGDEN , SEAN BARRATT and BURT KWOUK
Director TOSHIO MASUDA
Dubbing director MICHAEL BAKEWELL Produced by NTV, Tokyo

Contributors

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Lian Shan Po.
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Lin Chung
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Lin Chung
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David Weir
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Michael McClain
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Miriam Margolyes
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Peter Marinker
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John Blythe
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David Blagden
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Sean Barratt
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Burt Kwouk
Director:
Toshio Masuda
Director:
Michael Bakewell

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