A Pebble by the Wayside
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.
Year: 1938
Genre: Drama
Studio: Nikkatsu Corporation
Director: Tomotaka Tasaka
Cast: Akihiko Katayama, Reizaburo Yamamoto, Hisako Takihana, Shirô Izome, Sadako Sawamura, Fumiko Matsudaira
Crew: Tomotaka Tasaka (Director), Yuzo Yamamoto (Original Story), Saburō Isayama (Director of Photography), Yoshirō Aramaki (Screenplay)
Runtime: 131 minutes
Release: Sep 21, 1938
IMDb: 6.30/10 by 3 users
Popularity: 1
Country: Japan
Language: 日本語
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Keyword : society
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