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.

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Cast

Ryō Ikebe

Nishida

Yukiko Shimazaki

Noe

Yuriko Hamada

Riu

Takashi Shimura

Fujiki

Kan Yanagiya

Shintaro

Bokuzen Hidari

Riu's father

Kokuten Kōdō

Noe's uncle

Yuriko Hanabusa

Noriko Honma

Riu's mother

Eiko Miyoshi

Noe's aunt

Yoshiko Hirose

Tsuruko Mano