Blood and Sea

The Nami family lives in a quiet fishing village at the tip of the Shima Peninsula overlooking Ago Bay. The family of four consists of her grandmother, Tom, who is in her sixties, her mother, Kura, and older sister, Saki, all women. Toma, despite her advanced age, is still the best diver in the village, Nami has grown up to be an excellent diver too. However, her older sister Saki was born with a mental disorder and no one in the village wants to do business with her. Nami, on the other hand, is very popular among the boys of the village, she is healthy and beautiful. The fisherman Shosaku is crazy about Nami, and day and night he asks her on dates. However, Nami has a crush on her cousin Yuji, who works for the fishermen's union, and casually rejects Shosaku's advances.

• Release date
• October 1, 1965
• Runtime
• 93 min
• Genres
• Drama, Romance
• Director
• Takashi Nomura

Cast

Masako Izumi Nami Mitsuo Hamada Yuji Daizaburo Hirata Taro Sumie Sasaki Kura, Mother of Nami Tanie Kitabayashi Masami Shimojō Eijirō Tōno Minoru Takashima