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.

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The 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

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Sachiko Atami Haruko as a girl

Tetsu Nakamura Toru's Father

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Frank Tokunaga

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