A Pebble by the Wayside

A Pebble by the Wayside

1938
2h 11m
5.0

5.0/10

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Drama

"Adaptation of Yamamoto Yuzo's novel."

Overview

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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Production Information

Production Companies
Nikkatsu Corporation
Production Countries
Japan
Spoken Languages
Japanese

Keywords

society

Quick Facts

Original Title 路傍の石
Release Date September 21, 1938
Status Released
Language JA
IMDb ID tt0335382

Cast

Akihiko Katayama
Akihiko Katayama

Goichi Aikawa

Reizaburo Yamamoto
Reizaburo Yamamoto

Hisako Takihana
Hisako Takihana

Goichi's mother - Oren

Shirô Izome
Shirô Izome

Yuriko

Sadako Sawamura
Sadako Sawamura

Sumie

Fumiko Matsudaira
Fumiko Matsudaira

Katsuko

Kansho Yoshii
Kansho Yoshii

Iseya Master

Toshimasa Inoue
Toshimasa Inoue

Tailor Gin

Mantarō Ushio
Mantarō Ushio

Ichiro Umehara

Michiko Hoshi
Michiko Hoshi

Oni

Kisao Tobita
Kisao Tobita

Saki Yamada

Ureo Egawa
Ureo Egawa

Nobuyoshi Kumakata

Key Crew

Tomotaka Tasaka
Director
Yoshirō Aramaki
Screenplay