Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Mikio Naruse Director
- Hideko Takamine as Okoma, the bus conductress
- Kamatari Fujiwara as Sonoda - the bus driver
- Daijiro Natsukawa as Gonji Igawa - the novelist
- Tamae Kiyokawa as Innkeeper
- Yōtarō Katsumi as Kohoku Line Bus owner
- Keiji Sakakida as Bus customer
- Hiroshi Yamagawa Cast
- Hisaharu Matsubayashi Cast
- Kimie Hayashi as Office worker
- Tsuruko Mano Cast
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