Ama no bakemono yashiki
1959 · Movie · 82 min. · Japan
Yumi Aoyama is now a girl diver in shallow waters to cut oysters and other shellfish delicacies, and eventually pearls, from the shallow underwater rocks, like so many poor girls of her village. She comes from a rich family, but the Aoyama's treasure has been buried in a great earthquake when she was a little girl, and with the treasure, her lost sister. Yumi tells Kyouko, a policewoman friend, that she has seen the ghost of her dead sister, telling her how to find the entrance to a cave where their family's treasure is. As Kyouko begins an investigation, she finds out that the ghost story is part of a conspiracy by a criminal gang, who is out looking for an easy way to access the enormous treasure. Girl divers' friendship and blood relations come to a halt when ghosts vanish and truth is exposed - culminating in some hand to hand fighting by the seashore. (Semi-documentary footage of actual Ama women diving and exploring underwater tunnels and caves.)
Direction Morihei Magatani
Cast Yôko Mihara · Bunta Sugawara · Reiko Seto · Kuniko Yamamura · Masayo Banri · Yoichi Numata · Den Kunikata · Fujie Satsuki · Yôji Misaki · Kyôji Kokonoe · Eiko Ôhara · Jôtarô Yuki · Akiko Yamashita · Keiji Oki · Hiroaki Kurahashi · Hiroshi Hayashi · Hideo Saeki
Soundtrack Sadao Nagase
Screenplay Nao Akatsukase · Kahara Kouzou
Cinematography Kagai Okado
Original title Ama no bakemono yashiki
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Not rated (FilmAffinity)
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