Hideko the Bus Conductor (1941)
Okoma, a witty young woman working as a conductor in an old, rickety bus in Kōfu, Yamanashi (rural Japan), has a creative idea that could avert the dwindling number of passengers when her job and the bus company itself are at stake.
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Hideko Takamine
as Okoma, the bus conductress
Hideko Takamine (高峰 秀子, Takamine Hideko, March 27, 1924 – December 28, 2010) was a Japanese actress who began as a child actress and maintained her fame in a career that spanned 50 years. She is parti...
Kamatari Fujiwara
as Sonoda - the bus driver
Kamatari Fujiwara (藤原 釜足 Fujiwara Kamatari, January 15, 1905 - December 21, 1985) was a Japanese actor.
Fujiwara was born in Tokyo, on January 15, 1905, in Tokyo, Japan. Fujiwara's parents ran a prin...
Daijirō Natsukawa
as Gonji Igawa - the novelist
Tamae Kiyokawa
as Innkeeper
Tamae Kiyokawa (清川玉枝, Kiyokawa Tamae, May 24, 1903 – January 21, 1969) was a Japanese actress born in Shiba, Tokyo. She is known for her roles in films such as Haha no omokage (1959), Love Letter (195...
Yōtarō Katsumi
as Kohoku Line Bus owner
Keiji Sakakida
as Bus customer
Sakakida debuted in film in 1921, and appeared in a number pre-war films with various studios, including Nikkatsu, Takamatsu-Azuma, Empire Kinema, and Makino Talkie, before finally landing at PCL in 1...
Director
Mikio Naruse
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