Hideko the Bus Conductor

Directed by Mikio Naruse

With Hideko Takamine, Kamatari Fujiwara, Daijiro Natsukawa, Tamae Kiyokawa and Yōtarō Katsumi

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.