Rickshaw Man (無法松の一生, Muhomatsu no issho?, "The Life of Wild Matsu") is a 1958 color Japanese film directed by Hiroshi Inagaki. It tells the story of a Matsugoro, a rickshaw man who becomes a surrogate father to the child of a recently widowed woman.
The film is a remake of a 1943 film of the same name.
Famous quotes containing the words rickshaw and/or man:
“Why should I? Someone is bound to do it for me.”
—Anonymous Rickshaw Driver, Bangladesh. Quoted in Daily Telegraph (London, February 4, 1988)
“The intent of matrimony, is not for man and wife to be always taken up with each other, but jointly to discharge the duties of civil society, to govern their family with prudence, and educate their children with discretion.”
—Anonymous, U.S. women’s magazine contributor. Weekly Visitor or Ladies Miscellany (June 1807)