Lost for 70 years until 2022, Shimizu’s second postwar film recalls Mr. Thank You as he frames the narrative in a familiar setting, tracking an autumnal bus ride from a hot spring town through a mountain pass. When the jaunty bus unceremoniously breaks down, a bittersweet sadness overcomes the passengers as unexpected reunions take place, but nothing can be what it was before the war.
Michitarō Mizushima
Kiyotsugu Kino
Sachiko Mitani
Sachi Yanagita
Wakako Kunitomo
Shinichi Himori
Fukuichi, masseur
Seijirô Mayama
Fortune teller
Genjirô Sakada
Kaneda
Kyōko Akemi
Shinobu Araki
Gosho Shoichi
Lost for 70 years until 2022, Shimizu’s second postwar film recalls Mr. Thank You as he frames the narrative in a familiar setting, tracking an autumnal bus ride from a hot spring town through a mountain pass. When the jaunty bus unceremoniously breaks down, a bittersweet sadness overcomes the passengers as unexpected reunions take place, but nothing can be what it was before the war.
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