The Rickshaw Man

A poverty-stricken puller of wheeled misery somehow attracts a widow and her boy post-burial. Chaos leaks from every rickshaw spoke. By the end, nobody is any richer but the emotional pockets are suspiciously deep.

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Hiroshi Inagaki directed The Rickshaw Man in 1958. See Hiroshi Inagaki's full filmography, where to start with Hiroshi Inagaki, or where to go after you've seen everything by Hiroshi Inagaki.

The Rickshaw Man was released in 1958 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 103 minutes.