Hideko the Bus Conductor (1941)

7.3/10 54 min Drama Comedy

Overview

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.

Cast

Hideko Takamine

Okoma, the bus conductress

Kamatari Fujiwara

Sonoda - the bus driver

Daijiro Natsukawa

Gonji Igawa - the novelist

Tamae Kiyokawa

Innkeeper

Yōtarō Katsumi

Kohoku Line Bus owner

Keiji Sakakida

Bus customer

Tsuruko Mano

Okoma's mother

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