Film

Tokyo Omnibus

1959 · 1h 42m

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.

Teiji Takahashi

Minoru Ōki

Keiji Sada

Toyozō Yamamoto

Shinichirō Mikami

Kazuya Kosaka

Shin Saburi

Shūji Sano

Ken Uehara

Mariko Okada

Akiko Koyama

Hizuru Takachiho

Miyuki Kuwano

Eiko Kujo

Noriko Maki

Mieko Takamine

• Yoshiaki BanshōDirector
• Yoshiro TomitaScreenplay
• Toshio ShiinaScreenplay
• Tatsuyo HosoyaExecutive Producer
• Toshio UbukataDirector of Photography
• Yutaka MakinoOriginal Music Composer
• Yoshiyasu HamamuraEditor

Release date

October 30, 1959

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

1h 42m