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.
Cast
Ryō Ikebe
Nishida
Yukiko Shimazaki
Noe
Yuriko Hamada
Riu
Takashi Shimura
Fujiki
Reizaburo Yamamoto
Unknown
Kan Yanagiya
Shintaro
Bokuzen Hidari
Riu's father
Kokuten Kōdō
Noe's uncle
Yuriko Hanabusa
Unknown
Noriko Honma
Riu's mother
Eiko Miyoshi
Noe's aunt
Masako Ōshiro
Unknown
Yoshiko Hirose
Unknown
Kazuko Igarashi
Unknown
Yoshie Kihira
Unknown
Sumie Kuwabara
Unknown
Yaeko Izumo
Unknown
Tsuruko Mano
Unknown
Sachio Sakai
Yanagiya
Senkichi Ōmura
Unknown
Shiro Mizutani
Unknown
Fujio Miyagawa
Unknown
Sandayuu Dokumamushi
Yoshi
Junpei Natsuki
Unknown
Hiroshi Kondō
Unknown
