The Big Wave (1961)
April 2, 1961Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
Jūzō Itami
Toru
Mickey Curtis
Yukio
Heihachirō Ōkawa
Yukio's Father
Chieko Murata
Yukio's mother
Sessue Hayakawa
The Old Man
Kôji Shitara
Toru as a Boy
Rumiko Sasa
Setsu
Reiko Higa
Haruko
Noriko Sengoku
Toru's mother
Kōji Shitara
Toru as a boy
Hiroyuki Ôta
Yukio as a Boy
Judy Ongg
Setsu as a girl
Sachiko Atami
Haruko as a girl
Tetsu Nakamura
Toru's Father
Shigeru Nihonmatsu
Servant
Haruhiko Yamada
Makeup Artist
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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.