Mermaid Legend
{{Infobox film
| name = Mermaid Legend
| image =
| caption =
| director = Toshiharu Ikeda
| producer =
| writer =
| screenplay = Takuya Nishioka
| starring = Mari Shirato
Junko Miyashita
| music = Toshiyuki Honda
| cinematography = Yonezou Maeda
| editing =
| studio = Director's Company
| distributor = ATG
| released = {{Film date|1984|04|14}}
| runtime = 110 minutes
| country = Japan
| language = Japanese
| budget =
| gross =
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{{nihongo|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 ({{nihongo2|江藤潤}}) as Saeki Keisuke
- Kentarō Shimizu as Miyamoto Shouhei
- Seiji Miyaguchi as Tatsuo
- Junko Miyashita as Natsuko
- Yoshirō Aoki ({{nihongo2|青木義朗}}) as Terumasa Miyamoto
- Takashi Kanda ({{nihongo2|神田隆}}) as Lawyer Hanaoka
- Hiroko Seki ({{nihongo2|関弘子}}) as Nobu
Awards and nominations
6th Yokohama Film Festival.{{Cite web |url=http://homepage3.nifty.com/yokohama-eigasai/06-1984/06_1984_shou.html |script-title=ja:第６回ヨコハマ映画祭 １９８４年日本映画個人賞 |accessdate=2009-11-06 |publisher=Yokohama Film Festival |language=ja |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120309141522/http://homepage3.nifty.com/yokohama-eigasai/06-1984/06_1984_shou.html |archive-date=2012-03-09 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web|url= http://homepage3.nifty.com/yokohama-eigasai/06-1984/06_1984_best10.html|script-title= ja:１９８４年度 日本映画ベストテン|accessdate= 2011-01-07|language= Japanese|publisher= Yokohama Film Festival|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100306183537/http://homepage3.nifty.com/yokohama-eigasai/06-1984/06_1984_best10.html|archive-date= 2010-03-06|url-status= dead}}
- Won: Best Director - Toshiharu Ikeda
- Won: Best Actress - Mari Shirato
- Won: Best Cinematography - Yonezou Maeda
- 4th Best Film
References
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External links
- {{imdb title|0174918}}
- [http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_c.php?num_c=148957 Mermaid Legend] at Allcinema.net
{{Toshiharu Ikeda}}
Category:Films directed by Toshiharu Ikeda
Category:1980s Japanese-language films
Category:Films scored by Toshiyuki Honda
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