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.

• Eduard BocharovDirector
• Teinosuke KinugasaDirector
• Hideo OguniScreenplay
• Emil BraginskiyScreenplay
• Andrei BitovScreenplay
• Boris KaramyshevOriginal Music Composer
• Emin KhachaturyanOriginal Music Composer

• Chiharu InayoshiKen Kawama
• Makiko IshimaruMichiko Sakuma in childhood
• Volodya BykovVasska
• Tanya AynyukovaAlyonka
• Yuriy NikulinCast
• Machiko KyōDirector of the shelter
• Jūkichi UnoNobuyuki Noda, Ken's uncle
• Inna MakarovaKlava
• Ken UtsuiTeacher Tabata
• Stanislav Chekanraftsman
• Eiji FunakoshiJapanese in Leningrad and Moscow
• Lyubov SokolovaLieutenant of militia