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The Big Wave

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Calorie Rating: 103
Released: 1961-04-02
MPAA Rating: NR
Running Time: 73 Minutes


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.

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Cast

Jūzō Itami
Character: Toru
Mickey Curtis
Character: Yukio
Heihachirō Ōkawa
Character: Yukio's Father

Chieko Murata
Character: Yukio's mother
Sessue Hayakawa
Character: The Old Man
Rumiko Sasa
Character: Setsu

Reiko Higa
Character: Haruko
Noriko Sengoku
Character: Toru's mother
Kôji Shitara
Character: Toru as a boy

Hiroyuki Ôta
Character: Yukio as a Boy
Judy Ongg
Character: Setsu as a girl
Sachiko Atami
Character: Haruko as a girl

Tetsu Nakamura
Character: Toru's Father
Shigeru Nihonmatsu
Character: Servant


Production and Crew

Hidejiro Yotsie
Sound Recordist
Michio Okazaki
Sound Recordist
Itsuro Hirata
Art Direction

Clark L. Paylow
Production Manager
Haruhiko Yamada
Makeup Artist

Pearl S. Buck
Executive Producer

Kazuo Yamasaki
Director of Photography
Masayuki Nakajima
Production Supervisor