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Romance Express

19610.0 / 1085 min
Comedy

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

Frankie Sakai

Reiko Dan

Reiko Dan

Yumi Shirakawa

Yumi Shirakawa

Eitarō Ozawa

Eitarō Ozawa

Sonomi Nakajima

Sonomi Nakajima

Sadako Sawamura

Sadako Sawamura

Yūsuke Takita

Yūsuke Takita

Hiroshi Tachikawa

Hiroshi Tachikawa

Shin Morikawa

Shin Morikawa

Yutaka Nakayama

Yutaka Nakayama

Kuniharu Adachi

Kuniharu Adachi

Choji Oka

Choji Oka

Yuko Saha

Yuko Saha

Mieko Kurenai

Mieko Kurenai

Machiko Naka

Machiko Naka

Keiko Yanagawa

Keiko Yanagawa

Yuko Shibaki

Yuko Shibaki

Michino Yokoyama

Michino Yokoyama

Rumi Konishi

Rumi Konishi

Keiko Sata

Keiko Sata

Kenzō Tabu

Kenzō Tabu

Shigeki Ishida

Shigeki Ishida

Sachio Sakai

Sachio Sakai

Kunio Ôtsuka

Kunio Ôtsuka

Masahiko Tanimura

Masahiko Tanimura

Bontarō Taira

Bontarō Taira

Toki Shiozawa

Toki Shiozawa

Crew

Yūzō Kawashima

Yūzō Kawashima

Director

Bunroku Shishi

Bunroku Shishi

Story

Riichirō Manabe

Riichirō Manabe

Music

Ryōzō Kasahara

Ryōzō Kasahara

Screenplay