Movie: A Pebble by the Wayside

Top 10 Billed Cast

Akihiko Katayama
片山明彦

Goichi Aikawa

Reizaburo Yamamoto
山本礼三郎

Hisako Takihana
瀧花久子

Goichi's mother - Oren

Shirô Izome
Shirô Izome

Yuriko

Sadako Sawamura
沢村貞子

Sumie

Fumiko Matsudaira
Fumiko Matsudaira

Katsuko

Kansho Yoshii
Kansho Yoshii

Iseya Master

Toshimasa Inoue
Toshimasa Inoue

Tailor Gin

Mantarō Ushio
潮万太郎

Ichiro Umehara

Michiko Hoshi
星美智子

Oni

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    Tomotaka Tasaka's A Pebble by the Wayside (Robo no Ishi), made in 1938 and taken from a Yuzo Yamamoto novel, takes place around 1902, was about a young boy brought up entirely by his mother since his drunken father is never home. An intelligent teacher wants to send him to middle school, but instead the father apprentices him to a clothing store to which he is in debt. The mother dies and the boy is forced to quit work when his father insults the store owner. Later the boy goes to Tokyo, but only to continue his hardships. First he is forced to do a maid's job at a boarding house and later is used by an old woman to steal at funerals. Finally he is rescued by the teacher, whom he meets in Tokyo.

  • Release Date

    1938-09-21

  • Average

    5

  • Rating:

    2.5 starts
  • Tagline

    Adaptation of Yamamoto Yuzo's novel.

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  • Languages:

    日本語
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