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.
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Chikage Awashima as Oren
Katsuo Nakamura as Teacher
Shuichi Ikeda as Goichi
Kei Satō as Shogo
Yoshikazu Sugi as Kihei
Junkichi Orimoto as Junkichi
Michiko Hoshi as Okami
Masao Oda as Tadasuke
Nijiko Kiyokawa as Otoki
Shiro Okamoto as
Ryō Suga as
Seihachi Uchikoshi as
Midori Yamamoto as
Sumie Kaneko as
Seiya Satō as
Morio Kazama as Kyozo
Mamoru Yoshida as Sakuji
Maki Mizuhara as Kinu
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