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.
淡島千景
as Oren
中村嘉葎雄
as Teacher
池田秀一
as Goichi
佐藤慶
as Shogo
杉義一
as Kihei
織本順吉
as Junkichi
星美智子
as Okami
織田政雄
as Tadasuke
清川虹子
as Otoki
Shiro Okamoto
as
Ryō Suga
as
Seihachi Uchikoshi
as
