路傍の石 (1938)
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.
演员阵容
- 片山明彦 — Goichi Aikawa
- 山本礼三郎
- 瀧花久子 — Goichi's mother - Oren
- Shirô Izome — Yuriko
- 泽村贞子 — Sumie
- Fumiko Matsudaira — Katsuko
- Kansho Yoshii — Iseya Master
- Toshimasa Inoue — Tailor Gin
- 潮万太郎 — Ichiro Umehara
- 星美智子 — Oni
- 飞田喜佐夫 — Saki Yamada
- 江川宇礼雄 — Nobuyoshi Kumakata