The Big Wave

The Big Wave (1961)

Drama

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.

Director: Tad Danielewski
Writer: Tad Danielewski

Casts

	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 as
	Shigeru Nihonmatsu as Servant

Crew