Mermaid Legend

Mermaid Legend
Mermaid Legend
	DVD cover
Directed by	Toshiharu Ikeda
Screenplay by	Takuya Nishioka
Starring	Mari Shirato; Jun Etō; Kentarō Shimizu; Seiji Miyaguchi; Junko Miyashita; Yoshirō Aoki;
Cinematography	Yonezou Maeda
Music by	Toshiyuki Honda
Production; company	Director's Company
Distributed by	ATG
Release date	April 14, 1984 (Japan);
Running time	110 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

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

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 Natsukoß
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.

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 (in Japanese). Yokohama Film Festival. Archived from the original on 2012-03-09. Retrieved 2009-11-06.
↑ 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.

External links

Mermaid Legend at IMDb
Mermaid Legend at Allcinema.net

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[1] 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.

[2] 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.