A Pebble by the Wayside

The story

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.

Cast & crew

Akihiko KatayamaGoichi Aikawa

Reizaburo Yamamoto

Reizaburo YamamotoCast

Hisako TakihanaGoichi's mother - Oren

Shirô IzomeYuriko

Sadako SawamuraSumie

Fumiko Matsudaira

Fumiko MatsudairaKatsuko

Kansho Yoshii

Kansho YoshiiIseya Master

Toshimasa Inoue

Toshimasa InoueTailor Gin

Mantarō UshioIchiro Umehara

Michiko HoshiOni

Kisao Tobita

Kisao TobitaSaki Yamada

Ureo EgawaNobuyoshi Kumakata