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Revenge of the Pearl Queen

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Director
  
Toshio Shimura

Music director
  
Hachiro Matsui

Language
  
Japanese

6/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Thriller

Duration
  

Country
  
Japan

Revenge of the Pearl Queen movie poster

Writer
  
Isao Matsumoto
,
Jun Sagara

Release date
  
July 5, 1956

Screenplay
  
Jun Sagara, Isao Matsumoto

Cast
  
(Natsuki Kagawa / The Pearl Queen), (Yoshio KIzaki), (Yûzô Yamauchi),
Saburô Sawai
(Ryôhei Ishizuka)

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Revenge of the Pearl Queen (女真珠王の復讐, Ona shinju-ō no fukushū) is a 1956 Japanese thriller film directed by Toshio Shimura and starring Michiko Maeda. This film was one of the earliest Japanese films featuring nudity.

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Plot

Yoshio Kizaki is framed for murder and theft by his corrupt boss Kenji Asamura. When Natsuki Kagawa, Kizaki's lover who works for the same boss, discovers the plot on a sea voyage, Asamura throws her overboard. Natsuki is washed up on an island where she is rescued by a group of shipwrecked sailors. Fending off the lecherous sailors, she dives for pearls in the surrounding waters and eventually amasses a fortune which she uses to free her lover from prison.

The plot strongly resembles that of the last film of Josef von Sternberg, the 1953 Saga of Anatahan, which told the reputedly true story of stranded Japanese seamen on an island who murder each other for the favors of the only woman.

Cast

  • Michiko Maeda as Natsuki Kagawa/Pearl Queen
  • Ken Utsui as Yoshio Kizaki
  • Shigeru Amachi as Yuzo Yamauchi
  • Saburō Sawai as Ryōhei Ishizuka
  • Susumu Fujita as Kenji Asamura
  • Production

    Revenge Of The Pearl Queen was the first of five low budget films produced by the Shintōhō studio featuring Japanese diving girls (ama) although this film had no actual ama in the plot. The following year, Shintōhō released their first genuine ama film, The Girl Diver Trembles in Fear, also directed by Toshio Shimura and starring Michiko Maeda.

    References

    Revenge of the Pearl Queen Wikipedia
    Revenge of the Pearl Queen IMDb Revenge of the Pearl Queen themoviedb.org