The Big Wave
1961Yukio, 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.
Acted in
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
Tetsu Nakamura
as Toru's Father
Frank Tokunaga
Shigeru Nihonmatsu
as Servant