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Aoi Shinju (Japanese: 青い真珠, lit. ' The Blue Pearl ') is a 1951 Japanese film directed by Ishirō Honda, his first feature film. The story is based on Umi no haien (lit. ' The Decedent Paradise of the Sea' '). It is about a pearl divers and is filmed in a semi-documentary style.
- Umi no haien, by Katsuro Yamada
- Ishirō Honda
- Ishirō Honda
- Sojiro Motoki
His debut fiction feature, The Blue Pearl (Aoi Shinju) - virtually unseen in the west until now - depicts the melodramatic, but keenly-observed interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama (pearl divers; literally "women of the sea") in a superstitious coastal town.
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- 1951-08-03
- Ishirô Honda
- 97
His debut fiction feature, The Blue Pearl (Aoi Shinju) - virtually unseen in the west until now - depicts the melodramatic, but keenly-observed interplay between a young man from Tokyo...
The War of the Gargantuas ( Japanese: フランケンシュタインの怪獣 サンダ対ガイラ, Hepburn: Furankenshutain no Kaijū: Sanda tai Gaira, lit. 'Frankenstein's Monsters: Sanda vs. Gaira') is a 1966 kaiju film directed by Ishirō Honda, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya.
- $3 million (United States)
- Tomoyuki Tanaka, Kenichiro Tsunoda
Language. Japanese. Budget. ¥750 million [a] Box office. $382.2 million [3] [4] [5] Your Name ( Japanese: 君の名は。, Hepburn: Kimi no Na wa), sometimes stylized as Your Name., is a 2016 Japanese animated romantic fantasy film written and directed by Makoto Shinkai, produced by CoMix Wave Films, and distributed by Toho.
- $382.2 million
- Radwimps
- ¥750 million
Release info. The Blue Pearl. Jump to Edit. Release Date. Japan. August 3, 1951. Also Known As (AKA) (original title) Aoi shinju. The Blue Pearl. Japan. 青い真珠 (Japanese) Poland. Niebieska perła. United States. The Blue Pearl. Contribute to this page. Suggest an edit or add missing content. Top Gap.
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 ...
