Film

Romance Express

1961 · 1h 25m · Comedy

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.

Frankie Sakai

Reiko Dan

Yumi Shirakawa

Eitarō Ozawa

Sonomi Nakajima

Sadako Sawamura

Yūsuke Takita

Hiroshi Tachikawa

Shin Morikawa

Yutaka Nakayama

Kuniharu Adachi

Choji Oka

Yuko Saha

Mieko Kurenai

Machiko Naka

Keiko Yanagawa

• Yūzō KawashimaDirector
• Ryōzō KasaharaScreenplay
• Bunroku ShishiStory

Release date

April 4, 1961

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

1h 25m

Genres

Comedy