George is a naval officer who has seven nights of shore leave in Japan. Unfortunately for him his other job is heir to the throne of England so he must spend it at the British Ambassador and making dull factory visits. He decides one night to escape over the fence and enjoy Tokyo, whereupon through an entirely believable sequence of mishaps he ends up on a tour bus and falls in love with one of the guides and they have the titular seven nights to enjoy Japan and each other before he must return to his duties.
This could have been a good - not great - romantic comedy, if the director had cut the script down to the essentials, slowed things down, and left the ludicrous and senseless subplot involving the yakuza on the cutting-room floor. (No real surprise that the director and the producer both worked on James Bond films.)
Despite its many flaws it's an enjoyable and very watchable travelogue of 1970s Japan, and I have to admit I was crying like a baby by the end.
Unlike other reviewers I think Michael York played the plummy, stuck up and unworldly royal very well. His love interest, Sumi, is sweet, but that's about all. As an actress Hidemi Aoki would go on to be in almost nothing else.
If you come across this film it's worth watching and at least never dull.
This could have been a good - not great - romantic comedy, if the director had cut the script down to the essentials, slowed things down, and left the ludicrous and senseless subplot involving the yakuza on the cutting-room floor. (No real surprise that the director and the producer both worked on James Bond films.)
Despite its many flaws it's an enjoyable and very watchable travelogue of 1970s Japan, and I have to admit I was crying like a baby by the end.
Unlike other reviewers I think Michael York played the plummy, stuck up and unworldly royal very well. His love interest, Sumi, is sweet, but that's about all. As an actress Hidemi Aoki would go on to be in almost nothing else.
If you come across this film it's worth watching and at least never dull.