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Mermaid Legend

Ningyo Densetsu
dir. Toshiharu Ikeda
Japan 1984, 110’
subtitles: Polish and English

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Theatrical Screenings
St 16 Nov, 18:30
Kinoteka 1
Kinoteka 1
Tu 19 Nov, 20:30
Muranów
Muranów
Credits
Japan 1984
Duration: 110’
director: Toshiharu Ikeda
screenplay: Takuya Nishioka
cinematography: Yonezo Maeda
music: Toshiyuki Honda
cast: Mari Shirato, Kentaro Shimizu, Jun Eto, Seiji Miyaguchi, Junko Miyashita, Yoshiro Aoki, Takashi Kanda, Hiroko Seki, Hiroshi Shimizu
production: Art Theatre Guild (ATG)
language: Japanese
colouration: colour

Film description

Migiwa is a pearl diver. Together with her newlywed husband, they form a harmonious tandem. They both become accidentally enmeshed in a sinister plot of developers planning to modernize the coast and build a nuclear power plant. Only the wife will survive the following clash. Armed with a harpoon, she vows to avenge her beloved, armed with the forces of nature.

"Mermaid Legend" is a forgotten classic that returns in a renovated copy four decades after its premiere. It is an explosion of creativity befitting its time - one of the last works of the legendary Art Theatre Guild studio, made in a unique aesthetic, with a distinctive sound design and elements of exploitation cinema, in which eroticism goes hand in hand with drastic violence straight from a Yakuza movie. The film is a spectacle that stimulates the senses – from the beautiful sequences of pearl fishing, all the way to the bloody finale. The screenings of “Mermaid Legend” will be a special event in this year’s program.

Toshiharu Ikeda

Filmography:

1984 Legenda syreny / Ningyo Densetsu / Mermaid Legend
1988 Shiryô no wana / Evil Dead Trap
1997 Kagi 
2004 Chôseijin Guranseizâ / Gransazer
2005 Hasami otoko 
2008 Aki Fukaki

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