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Roadside Stone (1964)
Directed by Miyoji Ieki
Drama · 1h 37m
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.
Cast
Chikage Awashima
Katsuo Nakamura
Shuichi Ikeda
Kei Satō
Junkichi Orimoto
Michiko Hoshi
Masao Oda
Nijiko Kiyokawa
Crew
- Director
- Miyoji Ieki
- Screenplay
- Miyoji Ieki
- Novel
- Yuzo Yamamoto
- Director of Photography
- Hanjirō Nakazawa
- Original Music Composer
- Chūji Kinoshita
Details
- Original title
- 路傍の石
- Release date
- 1964-06-14
- Runtime
- 1h 37m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- Toei Company