
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.
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Cast

Jūzō Itami
Toru

Mickey Curtis
Yukio

Heihachirō Ōkawa
Yukio's Father

Chieko Murata
Yukio's mother

Sessue Hayakawa
The Old Man

Rumiko Sasa
Setsu

Reiko Higa
Haruko

Noriko Sengoku
Toru's mother

Kōji Shitara
Toru as a boy

Hiroyuki Ôta
Yukio as a Boy
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