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The Big Wave (1961)
Genres: 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.
- 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