The Rickshaw Man (1958)
Muhomatsu no issho (original title)

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	Toshirô Mifune	...	Matsugoro
	Hideko Takamine	...	Yoshiko Yoshioka
	Hiroshi Akutagawa	...	Capt. Kotaro Yoshioka
	Chishû Ryû	...	Shigezo Yuki
	Chôko Iida	...	Otora (innkeeper)
	Haruo Tanaka	...	Kumakichi
	Jun Tatara	...	Theatre employee
	Kenji Kasahara	...	Toshio Yoshioka
	Kaoru Matsumoto	...	Young Toshio
	Nobuo Nakamura	...	Yoshiko's brother
	Ichirô Arishima	...	Medicine peddler
	Chieko Nakakita	...	Yoshiko's sister-in-law
	Seiji Miyaguchi	...	Fencing master
	Bokuzen Hidari
	Kokuten Kôdô

Storyline

Matsugoro is a poor rickshaw driver whose animated spirit and optimistic demeanor make him a favorite of the town. Matsu helps an injured boy, Toshio, and is hired by the boy's parents, Kotaro and Yoshioko, to transport the boy to and from doctor appointments. Matsu comes to love the boy and his parents. When Toshio's father dies, Matsu becomes a surrogate father, helping to raise the boy and secretly falling in love with Toshio's mother Yoshioko. But Matsu knows there is a great gulf between their classes and there seems no hope that Matsu can ever be more than the rickshaw man to the mother and son. Written by Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>  

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