Romance Express (1961)
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.
Cast
Frankie Sakai
Reiko Dan
Yumi Shirakawa
Eitarō Ozawa
Sadako Sawamura
Yūsuke Takita
Hiroshi Tachikawa
Shin Morikawa
Yutaka Nakayama
Machiko Naka
Keiko Yanagawa
Michino Yokoyama
Keiko Sata
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