Film · Drama, Romance
The Blue Pearl (1951)
The Blue Pearl depicts the interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama (pearl divers; literally “women of the sea”) in a superstitious coastal town. Though raised within the same tradition-bound crucible, the two women – Noe and Riu – are portrayed as diametric opposites; the former meek but affectionate, the latter strong-willed but jaded by a tryst with metropolitan life.
- Director
- Ishirō Honda
- Writers
- Katsuro Yamada, Ishirō Honda
- Country
- Japan
- Language
- Japanese
- Release date
- August 3, 1951
- Original title
- 青い眞珠
Cast
Ryō IkebeNishida
Yukiko ShimazakiNoe
Yuriko HamadaRiu
Takashi ShimuraFujiki- Reizaburo Yamamoto
Kan YanagiyaShintaro
Bokuzen HidariRiu's father
Kokuten KōdōNoe's uncle
Yuriko Hanabusa
Noriko HonmaRiu's mother
Eiko MiyoshiNoe's aunt- Masako Ōshiro
Yoshiko Hirose- Kazuko Igarashi
- Yoshie Kihira
- Sumie Kuwabara
Yaeko Izumo
Tsuruko Mano
Sachio SakaiYanagiya
Senkichi Ōmura
