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Mermaid Legend Directed by Toshiharu Ikeda Screenplay by Takuya Nishioka Starring Mari Shirato
Junko MiyashitaMusic by Toshiyuki Honda Cinematography Yonezou Maeda Studio Director's Company Distributed by ATG Release date(s) 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.
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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 revenge 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 - Yonezou Maeda
- 4th Best Film
References
- ^ "第６回ヨコハマ映画祭 １９８４年日本映画個人賞". Yokohama Film Festival. http://homepage3.nifty.com/yokohama-eigasai/06-1984/06_1984_shou.html. Retrieved 2009-11-6. (Japanese)
- ^ "１９８４年度 日本映画ベストテン" (in Japanese). Yokohama Film Festival. http://homepage3.nifty.com/yokohama-eigasai/06-1984/06_1984_best10.html. Retrieved 2011-1-7.
External links
- Mermaid Legend at the Internet Movie Database
- Mermaid Legend at Allcinema.net
Mermaid Legend (1984) · Evil Dead Trap (1988) · Evil Dead Trap 3: Broken Love Killer (1993) · The Man Behind the Scissors (2005) · XX: Beautiful Beast (1995) · XX: Beautiful Prey (1996)
Categories:- Japanese films
- 1980s Japanese film stubs
- 1984 films
- Films directed by Toshiharu Ikeda
- Japanese-language films
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