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A Pebble by the Wayside (1938)

ALL 09/21/1938 (ja) Drama 131 Min
  • Release
    09/21/1938
  • Production
    Nikkatsu Corporation
  • Rotten tomato
    50%
  • Original title
    路傍の石
  • Original language
    ja
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
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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.

  1. Tomotaka Tasaka

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer



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  1. Akihiko Katayama

    Goichi Aikawa

  2. Reizaburo Yamamoto

  3. Hisako Takihana

    Goichi's mother - Oren

  4. Shirô Izome

    Yuriko

  5. Sadako Sawamura

    Sumie

  6. Fumiko Matsudaira

    Katsuko

  7. Kansho Yoshii

    Iseya Master

  8. Toshimasa Inoue

    Tailor Gin

  9. Mantarō Ushio

    Ichiro Umehara

  10. Michiko Hoshi

    Oni

  11. Kisao Tobita

    Saki Yamada

  12. Ureo Egawa

    Nobuyoshi Kumakata

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A Pebble by the Wayside (1938) 131 Min

ALL 09/21/1938 (ja)
Drama
  • Release 09/21/1938
  • Production
    Nikkatsu Corporation
  • Original title 路傍の石
  • ja
  • Revenue0.00

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.

  1. Tomotaka Tasaka

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer



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