Tokyo Omnibus

(1959)

Year: 1959

Runtime: 102 мин

Country: Japan

Director: 番匠義彰

Cast: 高橋貞二, 大木実, Кэйдзи Сада, 山本豊三, 三上真一郎, 小坂一也, 佐分利信, 佐野周二, Кэн Уэхара, Марико Окада

Plot

The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who runs a small restaurant, and his son is in love with a runaway girl who turns out to be the leader of a religious sect. Kusano is the henpecked proprietor of a rice biscuit shop who dreams of owning a bird and dog shop and his daughter is in love with a boarder, employed by the private detective agency searching for the runaway girl. The agency head has his own dream of arranging thirty marriages and has already accomplished twenty-seven. Tatsumi is a newspaper reporter who dreams of a big scoop to enable him to marry a girl TV producer and his friend a mountain climbing enthusiast who dreams of joining a Himalayan expedition but is opposed by his wife. His love of the mountains is shared by a boarder in their home and by a fishmonger's son.