Hideko the Bus Conductor (1941)
Original title: 秀子の車掌さん
Hideko the Bus Conductor is a 1941 Japanese-language drama movie directed by Mikio Naruse, with a running time of 54m. It stars Hideko Takamine, Kamatari Fujiwara and Daijiro Natsukawa.
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 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