The Blue Pearl
03/08/1951
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.
Movie Information
Ryō Ikebe
as Nishida
Yukiko Shimazaki
as Noe
Yuriko Hamada
as Riu
Takashi Shimura
as Fujiki
Reizaburo Yamamoto
as
Kan Yanagiya
as Shintaro
Bokuzen Hidari
as Riu's father
Kokuten Kōdō
as Noe's uncle
Yuriko Hanabusa
as
Noriko Honma
as Riu's mother
Eiko Miyoshi
as Noe's aunt
Masako Ōshiro
as
Yoshiko Hirose
as
Kazuko Igarashi
as
Yoshie Kihira
as
Sumie Kuwabara
as
Yaeko Izumo
as
Tsuruko Mano
as
Sachio Sakai
as Yanagiya
Senkichi Ōmura
as
Shiro Mizutani
as
Fujio Miyagawa
as
Sandayuu Dokumamushi
as Yoshi
Junpei Natsuki
as
Hiroshi Kondō
as
