Overview
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.
Movie Info
Release Date: 6/14/1964
Runtime: 97 min
Writers: Yuzo Yamamoto
Top Cast
Chikage Awashima
Oren
Katsuo Nakamura
Teacher
Shuichi Ikeda
Goichi
Kei Satō
Shogo
Junkichi Orimoto
Junkichi
Michiko Hoshi
Okami
Masao Oda
Tadasuke
Nijiko Kiyokawa
Otoki
Morio Kazama
Kyozo
