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A Pebble by the Wayside
5.0
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2h 11m
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1938
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.
Cast
![Akihiko Katayama pic](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Foriginal%2F9wkITj5qUYcOhWTVdhs4c4g57xv.jpg&w=320&q=75)
Akihiko Katayama
Goichi Aikawa
![Reizaburo Yamamoto pic](/_next/image?url=%2F_next%2Fstatic%2Fmedia%2FPortraitPlaceholder.a8aff590.png&w=320&q=75)
Reizaburo Yamamoto
![Hisako Takihana pic](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Foriginal%2FpTFGIZ8utQNT0Cy3RJkibHQ5Sn4.jpg&w=320&q=75)
Hisako Takihana
Goichi's mother - Oren
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Shirô Izome
Yuriko
![Sadako Sawamura pic](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Foriginal%2F1P6IAfazCum9mwIqUsOUzHrDfHQ.jpg&w=320&q=75)
Sadako Sawamura
Sumie
![Fumiko Matsudaira pic](/_next/image?url=%2F_next%2Fstatic%2Fmedia%2FPortraitPlaceholder.a8aff590.png&w=320&q=75)
Fumiko Matsudaira
Katsuko
![Kansho Yoshii pic](/_next/image?url=%2F_next%2Fstatic%2Fmedia%2FPortraitPlaceholder.a8aff590.png&w=320&q=75)
Kansho Yoshii
Iseya Master
![Toshimasa Inoue pic](/_next/image?url=%2F_next%2Fstatic%2Fmedia%2FPortraitPlaceholder.a8aff590.png&w=320&q=75)
Toshimasa Inoue
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Mantarō Ushio
Ichiro Umehara
![Michiko Hoshi pic](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Foriginal%2FyYy9b3ew2C6ytOLFvXhxRapxj4n.jpg&w=320&q=75)
Michiko Hoshi
Oni
![Kisao Tobita pic](/_next/image?url=%2F_next%2Fstatic%2Fmedia%2FPortraitPlaceholder.a8aff590.png&w=320&q=75)
Kisao Tobita
Saki Yamada
![Ureo Egawa pic](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Foriginal%2FannpTNa7QYD53lsGi9pW5QeS4my.jpg&w=320&q=75)
Ureo Egawa
Nobuyoshi Kumakata
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