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Tokyo Omnibus (1959)

Name: Tokyo Omnibus
Director: Yoshiaki Banshō
Released: 1959-10-30
Duration: 1 h 42 min
Cast: Teiji Takahashi, Minoru Ōki, Keiji Sada, Toyozō Yamamoto, Shinichirō Mikami

TMDB 0.01h 42m

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Plot Summary

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.