About
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
Writers
Studio
TOHO
Original Title
特急にっぽん
Original Language
Japanese
Cast
Full credits →F
Frankie Sakai
R
Reiko Dan
Y
Yumi Shirakawa
E
Eitarō Ozawa
S
Sonomi Nakajima
S
Sadako Sawamura
Y
Yūsuke Takita
H
Hiroshi Tachikawa
S
Shin Morikawa
Y
Yutaka Nakayama
K
Kuniharu Adachi
C
Choji Oka
M
Mieko Kurenai
M
Machiko Naka
K
Keiko Yanagawa
Y
Yuko Shibaki
M
Michino Yokoyama
R
Rumi Konishi
K
Keiko Sata
K
Kenzō Tabu