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.
Cast
Chiharu Inayoshi
Ken Kawama
Makiko Ishimaru
Michiko Sakuma in childhood
Volodya Bykov
Vasska
Tanya Aynyukova
Alyonka
Yuriy Nikulin
Unknown
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
Mikiko Tsubouchi
Female teacher
Yuriy Sarantsev
mate
Vladimir Yemelyanov
chief of customs service
Reiji Kurihara
anchorman
Nikolay Smorchkov
builder
Taiji Tonoyama
Unknown
Mikhail Shuydin
clown
Hiroko Machida
Michiko's mother
Rudolf Barshai
cameo role
Yūzō Hayakawa
Policeman
Ivan Ryzhov
старшина Трофимыч
Vitaliy Illich
Unknown
Crew
Teinosuke Kinugasa
Director
Eduard Bocharov
Director
Emil Braginskiy
Screenplay
Andrei Bitov
Screenplay
Hideo Oguni
Screenplay
Olga Katusheva
Editor
Toyo Suzuki
Editor
Pyotr Kataev
Director of Photography
Kazuo Miyagawa
Director of Photography
Aleksandr Rybin
Director of Photography
Aleksandr Kurochkin
Assistant Director
Michihiko Obimori
Assistant Director
Grigoriy Britikov
Producer
Masaichi Nagata
Producer
Kimio Tobita
Sound Recordist
Dmitri Belevich
Sound
Grigoriy Zhuravlev
Lighting Technician
Yukio Itō
Lighting Technician
Boris Karamyshev
Original Music Composer
Emin Khachaturyan
Original Music Composer
Pyotr Pashkevich
Art Direction
Takesaburô Watanabe
Art Direction