The Blacksmith of the Forest (1929)
A blacksmith is chased out of the village by the sinister village chief and forced to move to the forest with his wife and two sons. The blacksmith's younger son is disabled, and the other children in the village tease him. The older son aspires to become a doctor in order to fix his brother's leg. The film depicts the bond between a father and his sons. Only 18 minutes survive.
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Cast
- Masao Inoue — Kyosuke Ikeda
- Kaoru Futaba — Toyono Ikeda
- Eiji Oshimoto — Ichiro Ikeda
- Ichiro Yuki — Jiro Ikeda
- Shoichi Nodera — Chūzō Satō (assistant blacksmith)
- Kinuyo Tanaka — Omitsu
- Hideo Fujino — Village Mayor
- Shin'ichirô Komura — Tomisaku (Mayor's son)
- Hisao Yoshitani — Gosaku, the Villager
- Takeshi Sakamoto — School Teacher
- Eiko Takamatsu — Otane
- Kanji Kawara — Kiyohiko Sugimoto
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