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.
- Released
- 1961-04-02
- Genres
- Drama
- Runtime
- 73 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Tad Danielewski, Tad Danielewski, Pearl S. Buck
- TMDB rating
- 10.0/10 from 1 votes
Cast
- Jūzō Itami as Toru
- Mickey Curtis as Yukio
- Heihachirō Ōkawa as Yukio's Father
- Chieko Murata as Yukio's mother
- Sessue Hayakawa as The Old Man
- Rumiko Sasa as Setsu
- Reiko Higa as Haruko
- Noriko Sengoku as Toru's mother
- Kōji Shitara as Toru as a boy
- Hiroyuki Ôta as Yukio as a Boy
- Judy Ongg as Setsu as a girl
- Sachiko Atami as Haruko as a girl