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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.Read moreLess
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.
The story
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.
Cast & crew
Ryō IkebeNishida
Yukiko Shimazaki
Yuriko Hamada
Takashi ShimuraFujiki
Kan YanagiyaShintaro
Bokuzen HidariRiu's father
Kokuten KōdōNoe's uncle
Yuriko HanabusaCast
Noriko HonmaRiu's mother
Eiko MiyoshiNoe's auntExplore the crew
- Director of Photography
- Tadashi Iimura
- Producer
- Sōjirō Motoki
- Writer
- Ishirō Honda
- Director
- Ishirō Honda