The Blue Pearl

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.

• Ishirō HondaWriter
• Ishirō HondaDirector

• Ryō IkebeNishida
• Yukiko ShimazakiNoe
• Yuriko HamadaRiu
• Takashi ShimuraFujiki
• Reizaburo YamamotoCast
• Kan YanagiyaShintaro
• Bokuzen HidariRiu's father
• Kokuten KōdōNoe's uncle
• Yuriko HanabusaCast
• Noriko HonmaRiu's mother
• Eiko MiyoshiNoe's aunt
• Masako ŌshiroCast