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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Masuo Inoue as Kyosuke Ikeda
Kaoru Futaba as Toyono Ikeda
Eiji Oshimoto as Ichiro Ikeda
Ichiro Yuki as Jiro Ikeda
Shoichi Nodera as Chūzō Satō (assistant blacksmith)
Kinuyo Tanaka as Omitsu
Hideo Fujino as Village Mayor
Shin'ichirô Komura as Tomisaku (Mayor's son)
Hisao Yoshitani as Gosaku, the Villager
Takeshi Sakamoto as School Teacher
Eiko Takamatsu as Otane
Kanji Kawara as Kiyohiko Sugimoto
Fumiko Okamura as Kaoru Shimada
Hiroshi Shimizu Director
Yasushi Sasaki Assistant Director
Tokusaburo Murakami Writer
Minoru Matsui Assistant Director
Tarō Sasaki Director of Photography
The Blacksmith of the Forest Trailer
Mori no kajiya Trailer
Japan 05 January 1929
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