Movie

Romance Express (1961)

• April 4, 1961
• 1h 25m

• Comedy

Overview

Comedy of manners set on the "Kodama" train between Tokyo and Osaka, before the opening of the Shinkansen. In the leading role, Frankie Sakai plays a straightforward but indecisive hero. The passengers also include the bubbly Dan Reiko, and Ozawa Eitaro as a dour company president. Based on the novel "Seven and a half hours", by Shishi Bunroku.

Director

Yūzō Kawashima

Writers

Ryōzō Kasahara, Bunroku Shishi

Starring

Frankie Sakai, Reiko Dan, Yumi Shirakawa