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Romance Express
1961 0.0 (0 votes) 1h 25m
Genres
Comedy
Production Companies
TOHO

Romance Express (特急にっぽん)

Overview

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.

Key Crew

Director: Yūzō Kawashima

Story: Bunroku Shishi

Screenplay: Ryōzō Kasahara

Top Cast

Frankie Sakai
Frankie Sakai

Reiko Dan
Reiko Dan

Yumi Shirakawa
Yumi Shirakawa

Eitarō Ozawa
Eitarō Ozawa

Sonomi Nakajima

Sadako Sawamura
Sadako Sawamura

Yūsuke Takita
Yūsuke Takita

Hiroshi Tachikawa
Hiroshi Tachikawa