The Film
Romance Express
The Story
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.
Runtime
85 min
Released Apr 1961
Directed by
Yūzō Kawashima
Written byRyōzō Kasahara
