A Pebble by the Wayside
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.
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Genres
Drama
Release
1938-09-21
Cast
Akihiko Katayama
Goichi Aikawa
Reizaburo Yamamoto
Hisako Takihana
Goichi's mother - Oren
Shirô Izome
Yuriko
Sadako Sawamura
Sumie
Fumiko Matsudaira
Katsuko
Kansho Yoshii
Iseya Master
Toshimasa Inoue
Tailor Gin
Mantarō Ushio
Ichiro Umehara
Michiko Hoshi
Oni
Kisao Tobita
Saki Yamada
Ureo Egawa
Nobuyoshi Kumakata
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