Poster for The Abalone Gals

The Abalone Gals

1965 1 hour 25 minutes

OverviewListen icon

South of Tokyo is a small island until quite recently relatively unchanged since feudal times. Now, however, it is being made into a tourist's playland and the girls, who had been abalone divers, now become geisha, and the old ways of the island are all topsy-turvy. One of the girls, more sensitive than the rest, sees that here, too, people are motivated only by greed and decides to leave and try to find a better life elsewhere.

Released

26th June 1965

61 years ago

Runtime

1 hour 25 minutes

Finishes at 6:07pm

Directed by

Yoichi Maeda

Image of Yoichi Maeda

Written by

Toshirô Ishidô, Yoichi Maeda

Image of Toshirô IshidôImage of Yoichi Maeda

You might also like...