Hideko the Bus Conductor

Hideko the Bus Conductor (1941)

秀子の車掌さん

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.

Date of release
1941-09-17
TMDB
7.3 / 10 (9)
Runtime
54m
Genres
Drama, Comedy
Director
Mikio Naruse

Casting

Interesting facts

Hideko the Bus Conductor , also titled Hideko the Bus Conductress, is a 1941 Japanese comedy drama film written and directed by Mikio Naruse. It is based on the serialised novella Okoma-san by Masuji Ibuse and the first collaboration of Naruse and star Hideko Takamine.

Background

Hideko Takamine, in the principal role as Okoma, was already a famous film star for her childhood roles, and the title of the film refers to her name rather than that of the character which bears no first name in the original novella. Also, Naruse lightened the ending of Ibuse's story. This was the first film that Naruse made with Takamine, with sixteen more to follow between 1945 and 1966.

Naruse scholar Catherine Russell has described this film as "a remarkable film about a young woman 'coming out' as a professional, articulate, speaking subject."

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