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