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Dominican Rep. Hideko, the Bus Conductor
- Original title
- Hideko no shashô-san - Hideko, the Bus Conductoraka
- AKA
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- Hideko, the Bus Conductress
- Year
- 1941
- Running time
- 54 min.
- Country
Japan- Director
- Screenwriter
- Mikio Naruse. Novel: Masuji Ibuse
- Cast
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Hideko Takamine
Kamatari Fujiwara
Daijirô Natsukawa
Tamae Kiyokawa- Yotaro Katsumi
Keiji Sakakida- Hiroshi Yamagawa
- Hisaharu Matsubayashi
- Kimie Hayashi
- Tsuruko Mano
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- Music
- Cinematography
Ken Azuma (B&W)- Producer
- Genre
- Drama | Half-length Film
- Synopsis
- Hideko the Bus Conductress, Mikio Naruse's deceptively lighthearted comic confection, is the writer-director's first collaboration (of a total 17) with the great Japanese actress Hideko Takamine. As the teenage bus conductress O-Koma, Takamine might best be described as beatification personified, and it is her continuously cheerful demeanor that effectively masks the film's underlying current of satirical bitterness. In an effort to bolster the profits of the struggling Kohoku bus company, O-Koma and her co-worker Sonoda (Keita Fujiwara) propose offering tour guide commentary to the many sights along their rural route. After receiving approval from their hilariously disaffected boss (played by Yotaro Katsumi as a subtly frightening embodiment of the bottom line-minded bean-counter run amok), the duo enlists Gonji Igawa (Daijirô Natsukawa), a Tokyo novelist, to write the script for their venture.
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