The Blue Pearl

• Cast: Ryō Ikebe, Yukiko Shimazaki, Yuriko Hamada, Takashi Shimura, Reizaburo Yamamoto
• Duration: 97 minutes
• Genre: Drama, Romance
• Rating: N/A/10
• Release Date: 1951-08-03

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.