A Pebble by the Wayside
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1938
2h 11m
Japanese
Drama
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A Pebble by the Wayside
Movie
1938
2h 11m
Japanese
Drama
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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Cast
Goichi Aikawa
Goichi's mother - Oren
Yuriko
Sumie
Katsuko
Iseya Master
Tailor Gin
Ichiro Umehara
Saki Yamada
Nobuyoshi Kumakata
Directed By: Tomotaka Tasaka
Written By: Yoshirô Aramaki (Screenplay), Yuzo Yamamoto (Original Story)
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