
Romance Express
Release Date:
Apr 04, 1961
Runtime:
1h 25m
Genres:
Comedy
Description
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
Writer:
Bunroku Shishi, Ryōzō Kasahara
Stars:
Frankie Sakai, Reiko Dan, Yumi Shirakawa
Production:
TOHO