
A Pebble by the Wayside
Drama
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.
Top Cast


Akihiko Katayama
Akihiko Katayama
Goichi Aikawa
Akihiko Katayama
Goichi Aikawa
Reizaburo Yamamoto
Reizaburo Yamamoto
Reizaburo Yamamoto


Hisako Takihana
Hisako Takihana
Goichi's mother - Oren
Hisako Takihana
Goichi's mother - Oren


Shirô Izome
Shirô Izome
Yuriko
Shirô Izome
Yuriko


Sadako Sawamura
Sadako Sawamura
Sumie
Sadako Sawamura
Sumie
Fumiko Matsudaira
Fumiko Matsudaira
Katsuko
Fumiko Matsudaira
Katsuko
Kansho Yoshii
Kansho Yoshii
Iseya Master
Kansho Yoshii
Iseya Master
Toshimasa Inoue
Toshimasa Inoue
Tailor Gin
Toshimasa Inoue
Tailor Gin


Mantarō Ushio
Mantarō Ushio
Ichiro Umehara
Mantarō Ushio
Ichiro Umehara


Michiko Hoshi
Michiko Hoshi
Oni
Michiko Hoshi
Oni
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