
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.
Director: Yūzō Kawashima
Cast: Frankie Sakai, Reiko Dan, Yumi Shirakawa, Eitarō Ozawa, Sonomi Nakajima, Sadako Sawamura, Yūsuke Takita, Hiroshi Tachikawa
Audience-only score — full critic data not yet in the ReelXO vault.











