Rickshaw Man
Director: Hiroshi Inagaki
Cast: Toshirô Mifune, Hideko Takamine, Hiroshi Akutagawa, Chishû Ryû
Matsugoro is a poor rickshaw driver whose animated spirit and optimistic demeanor make him a favorite of the town. Matsu helps an injured boy, Toshio, and is hired by the boy's parents, Kotaro and Yoshioko, to transport the boy to and from doctor appointments.
Matsu comes to love the boy and his parents. When Toshio's father dies, Matsu becomes a surrogate father, helping to raise the boy and secretly falling in love with Toshio's mother Yoshioko.
But Matsu knows there is a great gulf between their classes and there seems no hope that Matsu can ever be more than the rickshaw man to the mother and son.
REMASTERED PRINT
1958 COLOR 16:9 ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN - 103 MINUTES
JAPANESE with OPTIONAL ENGLISH SUBTITLES
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