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Romance Express

特急にっぽん

Release: 1961-04-04 ·Runtime: 85m
Comedy

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.

Production Countries

Japan

Production Companies

TOHO