Hideko the Bus Conductress

Plot Summary

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.

Top Cast

Hideko Takamine Okoma, the bus conductress

Kamatari Fujiwara Sonoda - the bus driver

Daijirō Natsukawa Gonji Igawa - the novelist

Tamae Kiyokawa Innkeeper

Yōtarō Katsumi Kohoku Line Bus owner