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.
- Released
- 1941-09-17
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
- Runtime
- 54 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Mikio Naruse
- TMDB rating
- 7.3/10 from 9 votes
Cast
- Hideko Takamine as Okoma, the bus conductress
- Kamatari Fujiwara as Sonoda - the bus driver
- Daijiro Natsukawa as Gonji Igawa - the novelist
- Tamae Kiyokawa as Innkeeper
- Yōtarō Katsumi as Kohoku Line Bus owner
- Keiji Sakakida as Bus customer
- Hiroshi Yamagawa
- Hisaharu Matsubayashi
- Kimie Hayashi as Office worker
- Tsuruko Mano as Okoma's mother