Hideko the Bus Conductor

Hideko the Bus Conductor

54 mins | Drama, Comedy | Sept. 17, 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.

Hideko the Bus Conductor

54 mins | Drama, Comedy | Sept. 17, 1941

Hideko the Bus Conductor
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.
IMDb rating 7.0
Producers Nano Eiga
Original title 秀子の車掌さん
Directors Mikio Naruse
Writers Masuji Ibuse, Mikio Naruse

Cast

Hideko Takamine

as Okoma, the bus conductress

Kamatari Fujiwara

as Sonoda - the bus driver

Daijirō Natsukawa

as Gonji Igawa - the novelist

Tamae Kiyokawa

as Innkeeper

Yōtarō Katsumi

as Kohoku Line Bus owner

Keiji Sakakida

as Bus customer

Kimie Hayashi

as Office worker

Tsuruko Mano

as Okoma's mother