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Roadside Stone

Roadside Stone

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Drama

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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.

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Budget

$--

Revenue

$--

Status

Released

Original Language

Japanese

Runtime

97 mins

Rating

6.5/10

Release Date

14 June 1964

Country

Japan

Cast

Chikage Awashima

Chikage Awashima

Oren

Katsuo Nakamura

Katsuo Nakamura

Teacher

Shuichi Ikeda

Shuichi Ikeda

Goichi

Kei Satō

Kei Satō

Shogo

Yoshikazu Sugi

Yoshikazu Sugi

Kihei

Junkichi Orimoto

Junkichi Orimoto

Junkichi

Michiko Hoshi

Michiko Hoshi

Okami

Masao Oda

Masao Oda

Tadasuke

Nijiko Kiyokawa

Nijiko Kiyokawa

Otoki

Shiro Okamoto

Shiro Okamoto

Ryō Suga

Ryō Suga

Seihachi Uchikoshi

Seihachi Uchikoshi

Midori Yamamoto

Midori Yamamoto

Sumie Kaneko

Sumie Kaneko

Seiya Satō

Seiya Satō

Morio Kazama

Morio Kazama

Kyozo

Mamoru Yoshida

Mamoru Yoshida

Sakuji

Maki Mizuhara

Maki Mizuhara

Kinu

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