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A Pebble by the Wayside
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.
| Release : | 1938 |
| Rating : | 6.7 |
| Studio : | Nikkatsu Corporation, |
| Crew : | Director of Photography, Director, |
| Cast : | Akihiko Katayama Hisako Takihana Shirô Izome Sadako Sawamura Mantarō Ushio |
| Genre : | Drama |
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Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.
if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.
This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.
The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
