The invention belongs to a coal mining method and a coal mining machine, and concretely relates to a water cutting falling coal mining method and a water cutting falling coal mining machine. A coal seam is cut and coal falls when and / or after the machine adopts a water jet cutting device to transversely cut a coal wall, and the machine body moves on to drive the water jet cutting device and a water jet falling device to realize continuous coal mining. Compared with machines for realizing present coal mining methods, the water cutting falling coal mining machine has the advantages of high lump coal rate, realization of regular shapes of coal obtained after cutting, improvement of the use values and the economic values of raw coal, energy saving, low energy consumption, less dust, compact structure, use convenience, material saving, no need of the adjustment of the machine body, realization of the continuous coal mining through adjusting the right and wrong directions of the machine body, omitting of coal mining support equipment, and saving of the coal mining equipment investment, and can be used as a drilling machine to complete the drilling of roadways and dig out various chambers and roadways; no sparks and high safety are realized through adopting a water jet to cut coal; and mist spraying, water spraying and cooling devices used in mechanical coal mining are omitted when water jet cutting is adopted, so the structure of the machine is simplified, the failure rate is low, and the maintenance amount is less.