Mermaid Legend

Mermaid Legend (人魚伝説, Ningyo Densetsu) is a 1984 Japanese film directed by Toshiharu Ikeda. At the 6th Yokohama Film Festival it won three awards.

Mermaid Legend
Directed byToshiharu Ikeda
Screenplay byTakuya Nishioka
StarringMari Shirato
Junko Miyashita
Music byToshiyuki Honda
CinematographyYonezou Maeda
Production
company
Distributed byATG
Release date
  • April 14, 1984 (1984-04-14)
Running time
110 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

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 (江藤潤) as Saeki Keisuke
  • Kentarō Shimizu as Miyamoto Shouhei
  • Seiji Miyaguchi as Tatsuo
  • Junko Miyashita as Natsuko
  • Yoshirō Aoki (青木義朗) as Terumasa Miyamoto
  • Takashi Kanda (神田隆) as Lawyer Hanaoka
  • Hiroko Seki (関弘子) as Nobu

Awards and nominations

6th Yokohama Film Festival.[1][2]

References

  1. "Archived copy" 第6回ヨコハマ映画祭 1984年日本映画個人賞 (in Japanese). Yokohama Film Festival. Archived from the original on 2012-03-09. Retrieved 2009-11-06.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. "Archived copy" 1984年度 日本映画ベストテン (in Japanese). Yokohama Film Festival. Archived from the original on 2010-03-06. Retrieved 2011-01-07.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)


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