Mermaid Legend Explained

Mermaid Legend
Director:	Toshiharu Ikeda
Screenplay:	Takuya Nishioka
Starring:	Mari Shirato Junko Miyashita
Music:	Toshiyuki Honda
Cinematography:	Yonezou Maeda
Studio:	Director's Company
Distributor:	ATG
Runtime:	110 minutes
Country:	Japan
Language:	Japanese

is a 1984 Japanese film directed by Toshiharu Ikeda. At the 6th Yokohama Film Festival it won three awards.

Synopsis

When a fisherman stands in the way of an industrial scheme, the business developers have him murdered. His wife Migiwa, a pearl diver, plots to avenge his death.

Cast

• Mari Shirato as Migiwa Saeki
• Jun Etō as Saeki Keisuke
• Kentarō Shimizu as Miyamoto Shouhei
• Seiji Miyaguchi as Tatsuo
• Junko Miyashita as Natsuko
• Yoshirō Aoki as Terumasa Miyamoto
• Takashi Kanda as Lawyer Hanaoka
• Hiroko Seki as Nobu

Awards and nominations

6th Yokohama Film Festival.^{[1] [2]}

• Won: Best Director - Toshiharu Ikeda
• Won: Best Actress - Mari Shirato
• Won: Best Cinematography - Yonezou Maeda
• 4th Best Film

External links

• • Mermaid Legend at Allcinema.net

Notes and References

1. Web site: http://homepage3.nifty.com/yokohama-eigasai/06-1984/06_1984_shou.html . ja:第６回ヨコハマ映画祭 １９８４年日本映画個人賞 . 2009-11-06 . . ja . https://web.archive.org/web/20120309141522/http://homepage3.nifty.com/yokohama-eigasai/06-1984/06_1984_shou.html . 2012-03-09 . dead .
2. Web site: http://homepage3.nifty.com/yokohama-eigasai/06-1984/06_1984_best10.html. ja:１９８４年度 日本映画ベストテン. 2011-01-07. Japanese. Yokohama Film Festival. https://web.archive.org/web/20100306183537/http://homepage3.nifty.com/yokohama-eigasai/06-1984/06_1984_best10.html. 2010-03-06. dead.