The Big Wave (1961)
Yukio, a farm boy, and Toru, a fisherboy, live in a small Japanese village that is periodically threatened by a volcano on one side and tidal waves on the other. Yukio's younger sister Setsu follows then and dreams of becoming a pearl diver. Toru is preparing to go fishing with his father when a bell tolls and a danger flag is hung high on the hill behind the village to warn of an impending tidal wave by the village patriarch, known as Old Gentleman.
The Big WaveDrama
Cast
- Jūzō Itami — Toru
- Mickey Curtis — Yukio
- Heihachirō Ōkawa — Yukio's Father
- Chieko Murata — Yukio's mother
- Sessue Hayakawa — The Old Man
- Rumiko Sasa — Setsu
- Reiko Higa — Haruko
- Noriko Sengoku — Toru's mother
- Kōji Shitara — Toru as a boy
- Hiroyuki Ôta — Yukio as a Boy
- Judy Ongg — Setsu as a girl
- Sachiko Atami — Haruko as a girl
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