70
GoodGoodWatch scoreSummary
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.
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Audiences 70GoodWatch 70
IMDb7.0
Running time
1 h 25 min
Shorter than most comedies, −15 min on the typical 100
typical 10085Half of all comedies run 91–111 min.
Reach
To rent or buy in 1 countries
Released
1961
April 4, 1961
65 years ago
Genre
ComedyLanguage
Japanese
Original language
Made in
Japan
Directing · 1
- Yūzō Kawashima Director
Writing · 2
- Ryōzō Kasahara Screenplay
- Bunroku Shishi Story
Sound · 1
- Riichirō Manabe Music
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