Film
Romance Express
1961Directed by Yūzō Kawashima
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- Released
- Runtime
- 1h 25m
About Romance Express
- Comedy
Synopsis
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
- Writers
- Bunroku Shishi
- Ryōzō Kasahara
- Original title
- 特急にっぽん
