Movie: Roadside Stone

Top 10 Billed Cast

Chikage Awashima
淡島千景

Oren

Katsuo Nakamura
中村嘉葎雄

Teacher

Shuichi Ikeda
池田秀一

Goichi

Kei Satō
佐藤慶

Shogo

Yoshikazu Sugi
杉義一

Kihei

Junkichi Orimoto
織本順吉

Junkichi

Michiko Hoshi
星美智子

Okami

Masao Oda
織田政雄

Tadasuke

Nijiko Kiyokawa
清川虹子

Otoki

Shiro Okamoto
Shiro Okamoto

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    The Wayside Pebble is an effective drama about the hardships of a childhood spent with a brusque, cold-hearted father and a submissive mother. The year is 1910 and the place is a small Japanese village. Goichi is suffering because he wants to go to school, but his family is too poor to afford that luxury. Even when a kind friend agrees to help out, Goichi's father refuses to give in to his son's request for an education. Instead, he sends Goichi off to work as an indentured servant for a cold-hearted merchant and his family. As tragedy strikes and the suffering of the young boy increases, he begins to look for some way out of his bleak situation.

  • Release Date

    1964-06-14

  • Average

    6.5

  • Rating:

    3.3 starts
  • Tagline

  • Genres

  • Languages:

    日本語

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