A Pebble by the Wayside (1938)
Synopsis
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
Runtime: 131 minutes
Director: Tomotaka Tasaka
Top Cast
- Akihiko Katayama as Goichi Aikawa
- Reizaburo Yamamoto as
- Hisako Takihana as Goichi's mother - Oren
- Shirô Izome as Yuriko
- Sadako Sawamura as Sumie
- Fumiko Matsudaira as Katsuko
- Kansho Yoshii as Iseya Master
- Toshimasa Inoue as Tailor Gin
- Mantarō Ushio as Ichiro Umehara
- Michiko Hoshi as Oni
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