Film
The Little Runaway
Japan · SU- Director
- Eduard Bocharov
- Year
- 1966
During a Soviet circus tour in Japan, a small street musician, Ken, meets a clown, Yuri Nikulin. Upon learning that his sick father is being treated in the Soviet Union, Ken sets off in search of him. The friendship of the great clown and the boy continues in Moscow.
Top cast
Chiharu Inayoshi
Ken Kawama
Makiko Ishimaru
Michiko Sakuma in childhood
Volodya Bykov
Vasska
Tanya Aynyukova
Alyonka
Yuriy Nikulin
Machiko Kyō
Director of the shelter
Jūkichi Uno
Nobuyuki Noda, Ken's uncle
Inna Makarova
Klava
Ken Utsui
Teacher Tabata
Stanislav Chekan
raftsman
Eiji Funakoshi
Japanese in Leningrad and Moscow
Lyubov Sokolova
Lieutenant of militia
Michiyo Yasuda
Michiko Sakuma
Nikolay Grabbe
foreman
Hiroyuki Ôta
Ken Kawama as an adult
Viktor Chekmaryov
a man on a business trip
Jun Fujimaki
Jiro Kimura
Eduard Bredun
hunter
Directed by
Eduard Bocharov, Teinosuke Kinugasa
Written by
Andrei Bitov, Hideo Oguni, Emil Braginskiy
Produced by
Grigoriy Britikov, Masaichi Nagata