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.
Release Date
December 24, 1966Runtime
113 minGenres
FamilyDirected by
Aleksandr Kurochkin, Michihiko Obimori, Eduard Bocharov, Teinosuke KinugasaScreenplay by
Andrei Bitov, Hideo Oguni, Emil BraginskiyLanguage
RussianBudget
$0Revenue
$0Status
ReleasedCast
Chiharu Inayoshi
Ken KawamaMakiko Ishimaru
Michiko Sakuma in childhoodVolodya Bykov
VasskaYuriy Nikulin
Machiko Kyō
Director of the shelterJūkichi Uno
Nobuyuki Noda, Ken's uncleInna Makarova
KlavaKen Utsui
Teacher TabataStanislav Chekan
raftsmanEiji Funakoshi
Japanese in Leningrad and MoscowLyubov Sokolova
Lieutenant of militiaMichiyo Yasuda
Michiko SakumaNikolay Grabbe
foremanHiroyuki Ôta
Ken Kawama as an adultViktor Chekmaryov
a man on a business tripJun Fujimaki
Jiro KimuraEduard Bredun
hunterMikiko Tsubouchi
Female teacherYuriy Sarantsev
mateVladimir Yemelyanov
chief of customs serviceNikolay Smorchkov
builderTaiji Tonoyama
Hiroko Machida
Michiko's motherIvan Ryzhov
старшина ТрофимычVitaliy Illich