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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 Big Wave: Directed by Tad Danielewski. With Sessue Hayakawa, Jûzô Itami, Mickey Curtis, Kôji Shitara. 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.
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- Drama
- Tad Danielewski
- 1961-04-02
- The Endless Summer (1966) Could there be another contender for our No. 1 spot? Bruce Brown's iconic surf doc takes young West Coast surfers Mike Hynson and Robert August on a 'round-the-world search for the perfect wave.
- Riding Giants (2004) Three years after Dogtown and Z-Boys, Stacy Peralta came back with another spectactular doc on the history of big-wave surfing. You'll perhaps get more info than you need—starting with the sport's Hawaiian origins, and continuing on through the decades—though there's plenty of exhilirating tube and wipeout footage to illustrate the fascination with and draw of riding such massive waves.
- Surfwise (2007) This fascinating documentary tells the tale of Doc Paskowitz, a Stanford-educated man who, along with his young wife, eschewed conventional life to raise his nine children in a camper while following the best surf around the continent.
- North of the Sun [Nordfor Sola] (2012) In 2012, Norwegian friends and avid surfers Inge Wegge and Jørn Ranum, both in their early twenties, documented their search for perfect, secret (if freezing) waves.
May 25, 1984 · Big Wave is a documentary directed by Walter McConnelly and published on May 25, 1984 that presents the types of outdoor and risky sports present on the west coast of the United States such as paragliding, surfing, skydiving, bmx or the BASE jumping together with others, going fr... Read all.
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- Documentary, Sport
- Walt Mulconery
- 1984-05-25
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Big Wave (1984) is a little-known surfing documentary that was paired with a chart-topping Japanese cover album by the legendary Tatsuro Yamashita. The album lives on, but the film is forgotten and very hard to find in any digital format.
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The Big Wave is a children's novel by Pearl S. Buck, first published as a short story in the October 1947 issue of the magazine Jack and Jill with illustrations from Ann Eshner Jaffe. Buck expanded the story and published it in book form in 1948 through John Day Company, with illustrations from Utagawa Hiroshige and Katsushika Hokusai.
