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Roadside Stone (1964)

★ 6.5/10 97 min Drama Japan Japanese
Director: Miyoji Ieki
Screenplay by: Miyoji Ieki
Novel: Yuzo Yamamoto
Streaming: Not available

Description

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.

Top Cast

Chikage Awashima
Chikage Awashima Oren
Katsuo Nakamura Teacher
Shuichi Ikeda
Shuichi Ikeda Goichi
Kei Satō
Kei Satō Shogo
Yoshikazu Sugi Kihei
Junkichi Orimoto
Junkichi Orimoto Junkichi
Michiko Hoshi
Michiko Hoshi Okami
Masao Oda
Masao Oda Tadasuke

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