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The Wayside Pebble (1960)

★ 0.0/10 104 min Japan Japanese
Screenplay by: Kaneto Shindō
Novel: Yuzo Yamamoto
Streaming: Not available

Description

In Meiji era Japan a sixth grade boy is smart, likable and confident and owing to his academic success liked by his teacher. Things are not going well at home, however, where his father does not work leaving the mother to toil . With the boy's family having no money he cannot progress his education and has to drop out of school. A neighbour, who is a bookstore owner, offers the family money to allow the boy to continue his schooling, but the father is too proud to accept and rebuffs the offer forcing the boy to work.

Top Cast

Setsuko Hara
Setsuko Hara Oren Aikawa
Hiroyuki Ôta
Hiroyuki Ôta Goichi Aikawa
Hisaya Morishige
Hisaya Morishige Shogo Aikawa
Tatsuya Mihashi
Tatsuya Mihashi Tsugino
Kyū Sazanka
Kyū Sazanka Chusuke
Yūsuke Takita
Yūsuke Takita Yasukichi
Hisako Takihana
Hisako Takihana Yasuhiko's Mother

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