The Little Runaway

  • Family
12/24/1966
113

Storyline

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.

Directors:
Eduard Bocharov
Teinosuke Kinugasa
Writers:
Andrei Bitov
Hideo Oguni
Emil Braginskiy

      Cast

      • Chiharu Inayoshi
        Ken Kawama
      • Makiko Ishimaru
        Michiko Sakuma in childhood
      • Volodya Bykov
        Vasska
      • Tanya Aynyukova
        Alyonka
      • Yuriy Nikulin
        Acting
      • 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
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