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Romance Express (1961)
Directed by Yuzo Kawashima
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.
Length 85 minutes
Actors
Frankie Sakai | Reiko Dan | Yumi Shirakawa | Eitarô Ozawa | Sonomi Nakajima | Sadako Sawamura | Yûsuke Takita | Hiroshi Tachikawa | Shin Morikawa | Yutaka Nakayama | Kuniharu Adachi | Choji Oka | Yuko Saha | Mieko Kurenai | Machiko Naka | Keiko Yanagawa | Yuko Shibaki | Michiyo Yokoyama | Rumi Konishi | Keiko Sata | Kenzô Tabu | Shigeki Ishida | Sachio Sakai | Kunio Ôtsuka | Masahiko Tanimura | Bontarô Taira | Toki Shiozawa