Hideko the Bus Conductress
1941 · 54 MIN · IMDB 7.0 · 376 VOTES · DIR. Mikio Naruse
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.
Dialogue Timeline — 588 lines
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00:00:33 HIDEKO, THE BUS CONDUCTRESS
00:04:42 Don't be. We have so little business.
00:10:17 15 sen.
00:11:35 I'll carry the baby.
00:13:56 near Sagami Bay and the Sea of Honshu.
00:15:46 It's all right.
00:18:05 Boss.
00:19:16 Before Kaihatsu? It's a great pleasure.
00:21:17 I wonder.
00:23:37 To the tone of expression.
00:25:09 "Sa" is strong.
00:26:42 "There's a branch of this road behind the houses on the left"
00:28:26 Thank you very much, sir.
00:30:10 A specialist wrote it. Please read it.
00:32:36 I didn't ask him. He volunteered.
00:35:45 On the left, you can see bamboo growing.
00:37:49 What about injuries?
00:39:08 We must buy a used bus with the insurance money.
00:41:17 What will you do?
00:43:07 He wrote the bus girl's script.
00:44:22 I want to ask you a question.
00:46:40 We're in time.
00:49:03 "La, la, la with a cart full of flowers"
00:52:15 Oh, I see.
Cast & Characters
Hideko Takamine
Okoma, the bus conductress
Kamatari Fujiwara
Sonoda - the bus driver
Daijirô Natsukawa
Gonji Igawa - the novelist
Tamae Kiyokawa
Innkeeper
Yôtarô Katsumi
Kohoku Line Bus owner
Keiji Sakakida
Bus customer
Hiroshi Yamagawa
Hisaharu Matsubayashi
Kimiko Hayashi
Office worker
Tsuruko Mano
Okoma's mother
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed588
Dialogue density10.9 lines / min
First line00:00:33
Final line00:52:15
Production Record
DirectorMikio Naruse
LanguageJapanese
IMDb votes376