
Synopsis & Context
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.
Title Dossier
- Original Title
- 特急にっぽん
- Release
- April 4, 1961
- Screen Time
- 1h 25min
- Rating
- N/A
- Direction
- Yūzō Kawashima
- Original Language
- Japanese
- Country of Origin
- Japan
- Production Status
- Released
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