The Big Wave (1961)
April 2, 1961Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
Cast & Crew.
Sessue Hayakawa
The Old Man
Heihachirō Ōkawa
Yukio's Father
Jūzō Itami
Toru
Chieko Murata
Yukio's mother
Mickey Curtis
Yukio
Kôji Shitara
Toru as a Boy
Kôji Shitara
Toru as a Boy
Rumiko Sasa
Setsu
Tad Danielewski
Director
Reiko Higa
Haruko
Pearl S. Buck
Writer
Toshirō Mayuzumi
Composer
Noriko Sengoku
Toru's mother
Kazuo Yamasaki
Cinematographer
Hiroyuki Ôta
Yukio as a Boy
Judy Ongg
Setsu as a girl
Details.
Wiki.
The Big Wave (Japanese: 大津波, Hepburn: Daitsunami, lit. 'The Giant Tsunami') is a 1961 disaster drama film directed by Tad Danielewski, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. Produced by Stratton Productions and Toho, it is based on Pearl S. Buck's 1948 novel of the same name. The film stars Sessue Hayakawa, Mickey Curtis, Kōji Shitara, and Hiroyuki Ōta. In the film, two boys living in a village that is occasionally threatened by a volcano and tidal waves fall in love with the same woman.
Four years after they developed The Big Wave into a television play and founded Stratton Productions, Buck and Danielewski started production on the film in 1960; Buck visited Japan on May 24 and held a meeting on the film's production. Principal photography began in September 1960 and was reported to have been completed on January 3, 1961.
The Big Wave was released in the United States in April 1962. The film was screened in Unzen, Nagasaki, Japan at Unzen Memorial Hall on October 29, 2005.