Romance Express

Romance Express — Plot

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.

• Release date
• April 4, 1961
• Runtime
• 85 min
• Genres
• Comedy
• Director
• Yūzō Kawashima

Romance Express — Cast

Frankie Sakai Reiko Dan Yumi Shirakawa Eitarō Ozawa Sonomi Nakajima Sadako Sawamura Yūsuke Takita Hiroshi Tachikawa