Hideko the Bus Conductor
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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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Cast
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Hideko Takamine
Okoma, the bus conductress
Known for
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Floating Clouds
Kamatari Fujiwara
Sonoda - the bus driver
Known for
Seven Samurai
The Hidden Fortress
Mikio Naruse
Also in
Mikio Naruse 100th Birth Anniversary
Sanezumi Fujimoto
Masuji Ibuse
Daijiro Natsukawa
Gonji Igawa - the novelist
Also in
The Invisible Man Appears
The Downfall of Osen
Kazumi Koike
Tamae Kiyokawa
Innkeeper
Also in
The Road I Travel with You
My Geisha
Nobuo Iida
Yōtarō Katsumi
Kohoku Line Bus owner
Also in
Winter Inn
Nightingale
Ken Azuma
Keiji Sakakida
Bus customer
Known for
Godzilla
Rodan
Mikio Naruse Director · Masuji Ibuse Author Nobuo Iida Composer
United States release October 1, 1984 · Produced in Japan · Original title 秀子の車掌さん
Production
Nan'ô Eiga
Production
Japan
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Languages
Original title
秀子の車掌さん
Original language
Japanese
Spoken on screen
Japanese
Release dates
Japan · September 17, 1941
Theatrical
United States · October 1, 1984
Art Institute of Chicago
Portugal
May 29, 2009 · Cinemateca Portuguesa
Russia
May 5, 2001 · Limited theatrical · Retrospective of Mikio Naruse (Moscow)
Singapore
July 2, 2011 · Japanese Film Festival Singapore
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