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1962 Japanese movie
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.
Sequel to "Irresponsible Age of Japan".
The short film is the earliest surviving Japanese anime broadcast on television. Originally airing on July 14, 1958, on NTV and again on October 15, 1958, the nine-minute animation was the first televised Japanese animation and the first example of a full color broadcast.
Part one of The Masterless 47.
A man meets the spirit of a murdered gangster after he spills alcohol over his grave.
An irresponsible salaryman works his way to the top of the corporate ladder.