[1] It is based on the serialised novella Okoma-san by Masuji Ibuse and the first collaboration of Naruse and star Hideko Takamine.

[2][3] Okoma, a young lady working as a conductor with the Kohoku bus company in Kofu, Yamanashi, is worried about the dwindling number of passengers, who prefer the more expensive but clean and faster buses of the competing Kaihatsu company.

After hearing a radio programme about bus guides, she develops the idea to entertain the passengers with informations about the local sites during the drive.

After convincing the driver Sonoda and the company boss of her idea, she manages to get visiting writer Ikawa to write a script for her.

"[4] Hideko the Bus Conductor was shown at the Museum of Modern Art in 1985 as part of its retrospective on Mikio Naruse,[5] organised by the Kawakita Memorial Film Institute and film scholar Audie Bock.