The Little Runaway (1966)
During a Soviet circus tour in Japan, a small street musician, Ken, meets a clown, Yuri Nikulin. Upon learning that his sick father is being treated in the Soviet Union, Ken sets off in search of him. The friendship of the great clown and the boy continues in Moscow.
Directors:
Eduard Bocharov, Teinosuke Kinugasa.
Writers:
Andrei Bitov, Hideo Oguni, Emil Braginskiy.
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Chiharu Inayoshi as Ken Kawama |
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Makiko Ishimaru as Michiko Sakuma in childhood |
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Volodya Bykov as Vasska |
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Tanya Aynyukova as Alyonka |
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Yuriy Nikulin as |
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Machiko Kyō as Director of the shelter |
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Jūkichi Uno as Nobuyuki Noda, Ken's uncle |
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Inna Makarova as Klava |
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Ken Utsui as Teacher Tabata |
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Stanislav Chekan as raftsman |
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Eiji Funakoshi as Japanese in Leningrad and Moscow |
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Lyubov Sokolova as Lieutenant of militia |
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Michiyo Yasuda as Michiko Sakuma |
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Nikolay Grabbe as foreman |
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Hiroyuki Ôta as Ken Kawama as an adult |
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Viktor Chekmaryov as a man on a business trip |
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Jun Fujimaki as Jiro Kimura |
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Eduard Bredun as hunter |
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Mikiko Tsubouchi as Female teacher |
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Yuriy Sarantsev as mate |
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Vladimir Yemelyanov as chief of customs service |
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Reiji Kurihara as anchorman |
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Nikolay Smorchkov as builder |
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Taiji Tonoyama as |
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Mikhail Shuydin as clown |
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Hiroko Machida as Michiko's mother |
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Rudolf Barshai as cameo role |
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Yūzō Hayakawa as Policeman |
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Ivan Ryzhov as старшина Трофимыч |
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Vitaliy Illich as |
| Production | Grigoriy Britikov | Producer |
| Production | Masaichi Nagata | Producer |
| Writing | Andrei Bitov | Screenplay |
| Writing | Hideo Oguni | Screenplay |
| Writing | Emil Braginskiy | Screenplay |
| Crew | Kimio Tobita | Sound Recordist |
| Lighting | Grigoriy Zhuravlev | Lighting Technician |
| Editing | Olga Katusheva | Editor |
| Editing | Toyo Suzuki | Editor |
| Directing | Aleksandr Kurochkin | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Michihiko Obimori | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Eduard Bocharov | Director |
| Directing | Teinosuke Kinugasa | Director |
| Camera | Kazuo Miyagawa | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Pyotr Kataev | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Emin Khachaturyan | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Boris Karamyshev | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Aleksandr Rybin | Director of Photography |
| Lighting | Yukio Itō | Lighting Technician |
| Sound | Dmitri Belevich | Sound |
| Art | Pyotr Pashkevich | Production Design |
| Art | Takesaburô Watanabe | Production Design |
