The Wayside Pebble

The Wayside Pebble (1960)

In Meiji era Japan a sixth grade boy is smart, likable and confident and owing to his academic success liked by his teacher. Things are not going well at home, however, where his father does not work leaving the mother to toil . With the boy's family having no money he cannot progress his education and has to drop out of school. A neighbour, who is a bookstore owner, offers the family money to allow the boy to continue his schooling, but the father is too proud to accept and rebuffs the offer forcing the boy to work.

Director: Seiji Hisamatsu
Writer: Kaneto Shindō

Casts

	Setsuko Hara as Oren Aikawa
	Hiroyuki Ôta as Goichi Aikawa
	Hisaya Morishige as Shogo Aikawa
	Tatsuya Mihashi as Tsugino
	Kyū Sazanka as Chusuke
	Yūsuke Takita as Yasukichi
	Hisako Takihana as Yasuhiko's Mother

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