Romance Express
MovieTitle | 特急にっぽん |
User score | 0 |
Release date | Apr 4, 1961 |
Genre | Comedy |
Director | Yūzō Kawashima |
Production country | Japan |
Production companies | TOHO |
Run time | 85 min. |
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.