Roadside Stone (1964)
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.
Director:
Miyoji Ieki
Writer:
Miyoji Ieki
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Chikage Awashima as Oren |
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Katsuo Nakamura as Teacher |
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Shuichi Ikeda as Goichi |
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Kei Satō as Shogo |
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Yoshikazu Sugi as Kihei |
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Junkichi Orimoto as Junkichi |
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Michiko Hoshi as Okami |
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Masao Oda as Tadasuke |
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Nijiko Kiyokawa as Otoki |
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Shiro Okamoto as |
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Ryō Suga as |
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Seihachi Uchikoshi as |
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Midori Yamamoto as |
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Sumie Kaneko as |
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Seiya Satō as |
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Morio Kazama as Kyozo |
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Mamoru Yoshida as Sakuji |
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Maki Mizuhara as Kinu |
| Directing | Miyoji Ieki | Director |
| Art | Mikio Mori | Art Direction |
| Writing | Miyoji Ieki | Screenplay |
| Writing | Yuzo Yamamoto | Novel |
| Camera | Hanjirō Nakazawa | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Chūji Kinoshita | Original Music Composer |
