Romance Express (1961)
特急にっぽん
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.
- Date of release
- 1961-04-04
- TMDB
- 7.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 1h 25m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Director
- Yūzō Kawashima
Casting
- Frankie Sakai
- Reiko Dan
- Yumi Shirakawa
- Eitarō Ozawa
- Sonomi Nakajima
- Sadako Sawamura
- Yūsuke Takita
- Hiroshi Tachikawa
- Shin Morikawa
- Yutaka Nakayama
- Kuniharu Adachi
- Choji Oka
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