Romance Express

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

Reiko Dan

Yumi Shirakawa

Eitarō Ozawa

Sonomi Nakajima

Sadako Sawamura

Yūsuke Takita

Hiroshi Tachikawa

Shin Morikawa

Yutaka Nakayama

Crew

Yūzō Kawashima

Director

Ryōzō Kasahara

Screenplay

Bunroku Shishi

Story

Riichirō Manabe

Music