A Pebble by the Wayside
路傍の石
Adaptation of Yamamoto Yuzo's novel.
Release date : 1938-09-21
Production country :
Japan
Japan
Production company :
Nikkatsu Corporation
Nikkatsu Corporation
Status : Released
Durasi : 131 Min.
Popularity : 1.207
5
Total Vote : 2
Tomotaka Tasaka's A Pebble by the Wayside (Robo no Ishi), made in 1938 and taken from a Yuzo Yamamoto novel, takes place around 1902, was about a young boy brought up entirely by his mother since his drunken father is never home. An intelligent teacher wants to send him to middle school, but instead the father apprentices him to a clothing store to which he is in debt. The mother dies and the boy is forced to quit work when his father insults the store owner. Later the boy goes to Tokyo, but only to continue his hardships. First he is forced to do a maid's job at a boarding house and later is used by an old woman to steal at funerals. Finally he is rescued by the teacher, whom he meets in Tokyo.
Related Movies✨
movie
Main Street on the March!
1941
5.4
movie
Wesker's Report
2001
6.7
movie
Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild
2005
5.199
movie
Gasping for Air
2016
6.563
movie
Psycho Hannibal
2001
4.3
movie
Breaking Wind
2012
3.3
movie
Wild Chicks in Love
2007
6.3
movie
Drugstore Girl
2004
5.2
movie
And in the Morning They Woke Up
2003
5.7
movie
Hungarian Retro 2.
2014
4.8
movie
Age of Treason
1993
5.8