The Wayside Pebble
1964 · Movie · 97 min. · Japan
The Wayside Pebble is an effective drama about the hardships of a childhood spent with a brusque, cold-hearted father and a submissive mother. The year is 1910 and the place is a small Japanese village. Goichi is suffering because he wants to go to school, but his family is too poor to afford that luxury. Even when a kind friend agrees to help out, Goichi's father refuses to give in to his son's request for an education. Instead, he sends Goichi off to work as an indentured servant for a cold-hearted merchant and his family. As tragedy strikes and the suffering of the young boy increases, he begins to look for some way out of his bleak situation.
Direction Miyoji Ieki
Cast Chikage Awashima · Shûichi Ikeda · Katsuo Nakamura · Masao Oda · Kei Sato · Morio Kazama · Maki Mizuhara · Yoshikazu Sugi · Michiko Hoshi · Junkichi Orimoto · Nijiko Kiyokawa
Soundtrack Chuji Kinoshita
Screenplay Miyoji Ieki · Yuzo Yamamoto
Cinematography Hanjiro Nakazawa
Original title Robô no ishi
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Not rated (FilmAffinity)
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