Mermaid Legend

Mermaid Legend
Mermaid Legend
Directed by	Toshiharu Ikeda
Screenplay by	Takuya Nishioka
Starring	Mari Shirato; Junko Miyashita
Cinematography
Music by	Toshiyuki Honda
Production; company	Director's Company
Distributed by	ATG
Release date	April 14, 1984;
Running time	110 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

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.

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]

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

References[]

^ "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)
^ "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)

External links[]

Mermaid Legend at IMDb
Mermaid Legend at Allcinema.net

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[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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