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The Big Wave (1961)
Directed by Tad Danielewski
Drama · 1h 13m
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.
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
Crew
- Director
- Tad Danielewski
- Screenplay
- Tad Danielewski, Pearl S. Buck
- Novel
- Pearl S. Buck
- Director of Photography
- Kazuo Yamasaki
- Original Music Composer
- Toshirō Mayuzumi
- Editor
- Akikazu Kono
- Producer
- Tad Danielewski
Details
- Release date
- 1961-04-02
- Runtime
- 1h 13m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- Japan, United States of America
- Production
- TOHO, Stratton Productions, Allied Artists