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.
| Directing | Yūzō Kawashima | Director |
| Writing | Ryōzō Kasahara | Screenplay |
| Writing | Bunroku Shishi | Story |
| Sound | Riichirō Manabe | Music |