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
Mickey Curtis
Heihachirō Ōkawa
Chieko Murata
Sessue Hayakawa
Rumiko Sasa
Reiko Higa
Noriko Sengoku
Kôji Shitara
Hiroyuki Ôta
Judy Ongg
Sachiko Atami
Tetsu Nakamura
Frank Tokunaga
Shigeru Nihonmatsu