Roadside Stone

Overview

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

June 14, 1964

Original language

Japanese

Spoken languages

Japanese

Countries

Japan

Production

Toei Company

Cast

Shuichi Ikeda,Shiro Okamoto,Morio Kazama,Katsuo Nakamura,Chikage Awashima,Michiko Hoshi,Midori Yamamoto,Mamoru Yoshida,Nijiko Kiyokawa,Masao Odaand 8 more

Director

Miyoji Ieki

Writer

Yuzo Yamamoto,Miyoji Ieki

Cinematography

Hanjirō Nakazawa

Music

Chūji Kinoshita

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt5340886