The Little Runaway
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.
Director Teinosuke Kinugasa, Eduard Bocharov
Cast
Viktor Chekmaryov
a man on a business trip
Yuriy Sarantsev
mate
Ivan Ryzhov
старшина Трофимыч
Inna Makarova
Klava
Ken Utsui
Teacher Tabata
Eiji Funakoshi
Japanese in Leningrad and Moscow
Michiyo Yasuda
Michiko Sakuma
Eduard Bredun
hunter
Mikhail Shuydin
clown
Vitaliy Illich
Yūzō Hayakawa
Policeman
Chiharu Inayoshi
Ken Kawama
Yuriy Nikulin
Nikolay Grabbe
foreman
Jūkichi Uno
Nobuyuki Noda, Ken's uncle
Hiroyuki Ôta
Ken Kawama as an adult
Mikiko Tsubouchi
Female teacher
Vladimir Yemelyanov
chief of customs service
Makiko Ishimaru
Michiko Sakuma in childhood
Machiko Kyō
Director of the shelter
Nikolay Smorchkov
builder
Volodya Bykov
Vasska
Jun Fujimaki
Jiro Kimura
Taiji Tonoyama
Hiroko Machida
Michiko's mother
Stanislav Chekan
raftsman
Lyubov Sokolova
Lieutenant of militia