Romance Express

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Romance Express (1961)

Directed by Yūzō Kawashima

Comedy · 1h 25m

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.

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Cast

Frankie Sakai Reiko Dan Yumi Shirakawa Eitarō Ozawa Sonomi Nakajima Sadako Sawamura Yūsuke Takita Hiroshi Tachikawa Shin Morikawa Yutaka Nakayama
K
Kuniharu Adachi
C
Choji Oka

Crew

Director
Yūzō Kawashima
Screenplay
Ryōzō Kasahara

Details

Original title
特急にっぽん
Release date
1961-04-04
Runtime
1h 25m
Genres
Comedy
Original language
JA
Spoken languages
Japanese
Countries
Japan
Production
TOHO