Release Date | 1961-04-04 |
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Runtime | 85 minutes |
Genres | Comedy |
Stars | Frankie Sakai, Reiko Dan, Yumi Shirakawa, Eitarō Ozawa, Sonomi Nakajima |
Directors | Yūzō Kawashima, Ryōzō Kasahara, Bunroku Shishi, Riichirō Manabe |
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.