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The Big Wave

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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.

Cast & crew

Sessue Hayakawa · Heihachirō Ōkawa · Kōji Shitara · Noriko Sengoku · Jūzō Itami · Reiko Higa · Hiroyuki Ôta · Pearl S. Buck · Mickey Curtis · Tad Danielewski · Rumiko Sasa · Chieko Murata

Studios & networks

Allied Artists · Stratton Productions · TOHO