| The Giant | |
| Director: | Mansaku Itami |
| Producer: | Nobuyoshi Morita |
| Screenplay: | Mansaku Itami |
| Starring: | Denjirô Ôkôchi Setsuko Hara Sadao Maruyama |
| Music: | Nobuo Ito |
| Cinematography: | Jun Yasumoto |
| Distributor: | Toho |
| Runtime: | 127 minutes |
| Country: | Japan |
| Language: | Japanese |
is a 1938 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Mansaku Itami[1] and based on the famous five-part novel Les Misérables by French poet and novelist Victor Hugo. The film's setting was changed from France to Edo-period Japan.
The great jidai-geki star Denjiro Okochi plays the Jean Valjean role, and an eighteen-year-old Setsuko Hara features as Cosette.
| Denjiro Okochi | Sanpei/Onuma/Sankichi | |
| Setsuko Hara | Chiyo | |
| Masako Tsutsumi | Okuni | |
| Hinako Katagiri | Chiyo bambina | |
| Ryo Sayama | Ryoma Seike | |
| Sadao Maruyama | Yajiro Sogabe | |
| Yo Shiomi | sacerdote | |
| Yoshio Kosugi | Narutoya |