The Big Wave

Name: The Big Wave
Cast: Jūzō Itami, Mickey Curtis, Heihachirō Ōkawa, Chieko Murata, Sessue Hayakawa

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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 & Crew

Director: Tad DanielewskiWriter: Pearl S. Buck

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

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