Shigeo Katō
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The Blue Pearl: Directed by Ishirô Honda. With Yuriko Hamada, Reizaburô Yamamoto, Ryô Ikebe, Shigeo Katô. Though recognized worldwide almost exclusively for his colorful kaiju fare, director Ishiro Honda (Godzilla, Rodan, Mothra) was a natural humanist with a particular understanding of the relationship between people and their social environs.
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- 1951-08-03
- Ishirô Honda
- 97
Film Movie Reviews The Blue Pearl — 1951. The Blue Pearl. 1951. 1h 37m. Advertisement. Cast. ... (Aoi Shinju) - virtually unseen in the west until now - depicts the melodramatic, but keenly ...
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.
- Ishirō Honda
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Though recognized worldwide almost exclusively for his colorful kaiju fare, director Ishirō Honda (Godzilla, Rodan, Mothra) was a natural humanist with a particular understanding of the relationship between people and their social environs. His debut fiction feature, The Blue Pearl (Aoi Shinju) – virtually unseen in the west until now – depicts the melodramatic, but keenly-observed ...
Though recognized worldwide almost exclusively for his colorful kaiju fare, director Ishirō Honda (Godzilla, Rodan, Mothra) was a natural humanist with a particular understanding of the relationship between people and their social environs. His debut fiction feature, The Blue Pearl (Aoi Shinju) – virtually unseen in the west until now – depicts the melodramatic, but keenly-observed ...
The Mysterians ( Japanese: 地球防衛軍, Hepburn: Chikyū Bōeigun, lit. 'Earth Defense Force') is a 1957 Japanese epic science fiction film directed by Ishirō Honda, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. Produced and distributed by Toho Co., Ltd., it is the first Honda-Tsuburaya collaboration filmed in both color and TohoScope, and stars ...
He established himself as a director in his own right with Aoi shinju (1951; “The Blue Pearl”). This film, a semidocumentary about pearl divers, was the first full-length Japanese movie to feature underwater sequences. Honda won wide attention, however, with the special-effects-laden film Gojira, which he also cowrote. In this movie a giant ...
