

54 minutes
9/17/1941
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.

Hideko Takamine
as Okoma, the bus conductress

Kamatari Fujiwara
as Sonoda - the bus driver

Daijirō Natsukawa
as Gonji Igawa - the novelist

Tamae Kiyokawa
as Innkeeper

Yōtarō Katsumi
as Kohoku Line Bus owner

Keiji Sakakida
as Bus customer
Hiroshi Yamagawa
Hisaharu Matsubayashi
Kimie Hayashi
as Office worker
Tsuruko Mano
as Okoma's mother