Romance Express
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.
- Year: 1961
- Country: Japan
- Genre: Comedy
- Studio: TOHO
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- Director: Yūzō Kawashima
- Cast: Frankie Sakai, Reiko Dan, Yumi Shirakawa, Eitarō Ozawa, Sonomi Nakajima, Sadako Sawamura