Hideko no shashô-san

19411941
54m

IMDb RATING

7.0/10

330

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Comedy Drama

Okoma, 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.Okoma, 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.Okoma, 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.

IMDb RATING

7.0/10

330

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Director
- Mikio Naruse
Writers
- Masuji Ibuse(story)
- Mikio Naruse(screenplay)
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Kamatari Fujiwara and Hideko Takamine in Hideko no shashô-san (1941)

Hideko Takamine in Hideko no shashô-san (1941)

Kamatari Fujiwara, Tamae Kiyokawa, Tsuruko Mano, Mikio Naruse, Daijirô Natsukawa, Keiji Sakakida, Hideko Takamine, Hiroshi Yamagawa, Yôtarô Katsumi, Hisaharu Matsubayashi, and Kimiko Hayashi in Hideko no shashô-san (1941)

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7/10

Plovers Living on Sashido No-Iso Sing

Hideko Takamine is a conductress on a shabby bus in the countryside. She greets the passengers, takes their fares, and thanks them when they leave. Business is poor; a competing company has new, clean buses. Cheerful Hideko ropes her driver and a visiting writer into writing a script about local sights for her recite as they travel along their route. Little do they know that their money-grubbing boss has plans that will ruin their happiness. For the moment, they are content.

For Mikio Naruse, with his stories of small tragedies in a constantly changing Japan, this short feature is as good a life as it can get for the little people he cares about. They are kind, well-meaning people who wish to be moral. Happiness is such a fleeting emotion. Perhaps we should all learn to be satisfied with that.

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