The Big Wave Trailer (1961)

02 April 1961 Drama 73 mins

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 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

Kôji 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

Crew

Tad Danielewski Screenplay

Pearl S. Buck Novel

Pearl S. Buck Executive Producer

Tad Danielewski Producer

Kazuo Yamasaki Director of Photography

Akikazu Kono Editor

Itsuro Hirata Art Direction

Haruhiko Yamada Makeup Artist

Clark L. Paylow Production Manager

Masayuki Nakajima Production Supervisor

Michio Okazaki Sound Recordist

Hidejiro Yotsie Sound Recordist

Tad Danielewski Director

Toshirō Mayuzumi Original Music Composer

International Releases Dates

United States 02 April 1961

Production Companies

Allied Artists

TOHO

Stratton Productions

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