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.

[12] Tsuburaya made sketches of the tsunami sequence he was appointed to stage for the film and presented them to Buck and the additional co-producers.

Buck called the sketches as "startlingly accurate water colors of the rising horizon, the onrushing wave, and the towering crash of the crest."

During the meeting, Tsuburaya also announced plans to recreate the fishing village depicted in the film by taking his cameraman along with him and photographing "everything".

In A Bridge for Passing, Buck described the last day of filming: "The famous special-effects artist was waiting for me, debonair in a new light suit and hat and with a cane.

In a space as vast as Madison Square Garden in New York, which is the biggest place I can think of at the moment, he had reconstructed Kitsu, the mountains and the sea.