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.
Director: Mikio Naruse
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Hideko Takamine as Okoma, the bus conductress |
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Kamatari Fujiwara as Sonoda - the bus driver |
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Daijiro Natsukawa as Gonji Igawa - the novelist |
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Tamae Kiyokawa as Innkeeper |
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Yōtarō Katsumi as Kohoku Line Bus owner |
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Keiji Sakakida as Bus customer |
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Hiroshi Yamagawa as |
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Hisaharu Matsubayashi as |
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Kimie Hayashi as Office worker |
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Tsuruko Mano as Okoma's mother |
| Directing | Mikio Naruse | Director |
| Camera | Ken Azuma | Director of Photography |
| Art | Kazumi Koike | Art Direction |
| Writing | Masuji Ibuse | Novel |
| Crew | Nobusada Amemiya | Property Master |
| Writing | Mikio Naruse | Writer |
| Sound | Nobuo Iida | Original Music Composer |
| Production | Sanezumi Fujimoto | Executive Producer |
| Lighting | Osamu Hattori | Lighting Technician |
