Tokyo Omnibus (1959)
The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who runs a small restaurant, and his son is in love with a runaway girl who turns out to be the leader of a religious sect. Kusano is the henpecked proprietor of a rice biscuit shop who dreams of owning a bird and dog shop and his daughter is in love with a boarder, employed by the private detective agency searching for the runaway girl. The agency head has his own dream of arranging thirty marriages and has already accomplished twenty-seven. Tatsumi is a newspaper reporter who dreams of a big scoop to enable him to marry a girl TV producer and his friend a mountain climbing enthusiast who dreams of joining a Himalayan expedition but is opposed by his wife. His love of the mountains is shared by a boarder in their home and by a fishmonger's son.
Director:
Yoshiaki Banshō
Writers:
Yoshiro Tomita, Toshio Shiina.
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Teiji Takahashi as |
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Minoru Ōki as |
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Keiji Sada as |
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Toyozō Yamamoto as |
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Shinichirō Mikami as |
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Kazuya Kosaka as |
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Shin Saburi as |
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Shūji Sano as |
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Ken Uehara as |
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Mariko Okada as |
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Akiko Koyama as |
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Hizuru Takachiho as |
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Miyuki Kuwano as |
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Eiko Kujo as |
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Noriko Maki as |
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Mieko Takamine as |
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Kuniko Miyake as |
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Mitsuko Mito as |
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Masahiko Tsugawa as |
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Kōji Mitsui as |
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Shinji Takano as |
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Kumeko Urabe as |
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Akira Ōizumi as |
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Seiji Miyaguchi as |
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Nijiko Kiyokawa as |
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Tony Tani as |
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Yuriko Hime as |
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Yukiyo Toake as |
| Editing | Yoshiyasu Hamamura | Editor |
| Writing | Yoshiro Tomita | Screenplay |
| Lighting | Ryozo Toyoshima | Lighting Technician |
| Directing | Kôzô Tashiro | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Yoshiaki Banshō | Director |
| Writing | Toshio Shiina | Screenplay |
| Camera | Toshio Ubukata | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Tokio Hiramatsu | Sound Recordist |
| Production | Tatsuyo Hosoya | Executive Producer |
| Sound | Yutaka Makino | Original Music Composer |
| Art | Masao Kumagai | Art Direction |
| Production | Shizuo Yamanouchi | Associate Producer |
| Sound | Katsumi Uzawa | Sound Mixer |