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.

Family

Chiharu Inayoshi

(Ken Kawama)

Makiko Ishimaru

(Michiko Sakuma in childhood)

Volodya Bykov

(Vasska)

Tanya Aynyukova

(Alyonka)

Yuriy Nikulin

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

Mihail Shuydin

(clown)

Hiroko Machida

(Michiko's mother)

Rudolf Barshai

(cameo role)

Yūzō Hayakawa

(Policeman)

Ivan Ryzhov

(старшина Трофимыч)

Vitaliy Illich