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Hideko the Bus Conductress is a japonais film of genre Drama directed by Mikio Naruse with Hideko Takamine
Hideko the Bus Conductress (1941)
Hideko no shashō-san
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Add to a movie listHideko, the Bus Conductor (秀子の車掌さん, Hideko no Shasho-san), based on the short story "Okomasan" by Masuji Ibuse, is a 1941 Japanese film directed by Mikio Naruse. It is a short film of 54 minutes.
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Hideko, a young lady working as a conductor with a bus company in Kofu, Yamanashi, has an idea for her bus that could avert the dwindling number of passengers. She asks the visiting author Ikawa to write for her a commentary to the local sites that she can read out to her passengers as they travel through the countryside. However, they are out on their practice run, when ...Actors
Hideko Takamine
(Okoma, the bus conductress)
Kamatari Fujiwara
(Sonoda - the bus driver)
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