Roadside Stone

(1964)

★ 6.5 IMDb · 4 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1964

Runtime: 97 мин

Country: Japan

Director: 家城巳代治

Cast: 淡島千景, 中村嘉葎雄, Сюнъичи Икеда, 佐藤慶, 杉義一, 織本順吉, 星美智子, 織田政雄, 清川虹子, 岡本四郎

Plot

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.