A Pebble by the Wayside

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.

Main Cast

Akihiko Katayama

Goichi Aikawa

Age : 88 | Popularity : 7%

Reizaburô Yamamoto

Age : 61 | Popularity : 3%

Hisako Takihana

Goichi's mother - Oren

Age : 78 | Popularity : 5%

Shirô Izome

Yuriko

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Sadako Sawamura

Sumie

Age : 87 | Popularity : 7%

Fumiko Matsudaira

Katsuko

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Kansho Yoshii

Iseya Master

Age : 64 | Popularity : 3%

Toshimasa Inoue

Tailor Gin

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Writing	Screenplay	Yoshio Aramaki
	Original Story	Yuzo Yamamoto
Directing	Director	Tomotaka Tasaka
Camera	Director of Photography	Saburō Isayama
Department	Role	Name

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