Adaptation of Yamamoto Yuzo's novel.
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.
Tomotaka Tasaka
Director
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
The Unforgivable74%
Hellion58%
Blue Chips61%
O.G.59%
La joven69%
Hands of Stone66%
Home Run61%
The Visit72%
A Dry White Season67%
Fast Girls60%
Eleanor the Great69%
The Truth About Emanuel59%
Come Sunday58%
TalhotBlond63%
Goal II: Living the Dream60%
Five Minutes of Heaven61%
Starving in Suburbia65%
Cass59%
God's Pocket58%
18058%
