Mr. Thank You

Mr. Thank You (有りがたうさん, Arigatō-san) is a 1936 Japanese drama film written and directed by Hiroshi Shimizu.[1][2] and based on a short story by the Nobel Prize-winning novelist, Yasunari Kawabata.[3]

Mr. Thank You
Directed byHiroshi Shimizu
Screenplay byHiroshi Shimizu
Based on"Arigato"
by Yasunari Kawabata
StarringKen Uehara
Takashi Ishiyama
Michiko Kuwano
Music byKeizô Horiuchi
CinematographyIsamu Aoki
Release date
  • 27 February 1936 (1936-02-27)
Running time
78 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

Plot

A bus driver, nicknamed Mr. Thank You due to his expressions of gratitude to other road users who give way on the narrow mountain roads, drives from rural Izu to faraway Tokyo. The film portrays the passengers and their diverse reasons for travel.

Cast
Ken Uehara and Michiko Kuwano
  • Ken Uehara as Mr. Thank You
  • Michiko Kuwano as Woman in black collar
  • Mayumi Tsukiji as Girl being sold
  • Kaoru Futaba as Girl's mother
  • Setsuko Shinobu as Daughter of man who returned from Tokyo
  • Ryuji Ishiyama as Gentleman with beard
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gollark: *continues not being scared of giannis*
gollark: They have a regular structure, and you could store one bit per atom, which is a lot. The main problem is that you would probably need stupidly advanced technology to read and write them.
gollark: One very dense method for storing information in science fiction stuff is sticking it in patterns of isotopes in a diamond or something.

References
  1. "Arigato-san". BFI.
  2. "Mr. Thank You (1936) - The Criterion Collection". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 18 March 2016.
  3. Koresky, Michael. "Eclipse Series 15: Travels with Hiroshi Shimizu". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 24 March 2016.


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