Netflix's Bullet Train Explosion puts Shinkansen at heart of high-speed Japanese thriller with a ticking bomb

Netflix's Bullet Train Explosion puts Shinkansen at heart of high-speed Japanese thriller with a ticking bomb

Director Shinji Higuchi has reimagined the 1975 thriller The Bullet Train into Netflix’s latest film Bullet Train Explosion, starring former Smap star Tsuyoshi Kusanagi.

Bullet Train Explosion director on examining evil in the Netflix film

Shinji Higuchi talks about exploring wrongdoing and judgment in film starring Tsuyoshi Kusanagi and why bullet trains are a symbol of Japan.

‘Bullet Train Explosion’ Review: A Reality-Based Runaway Train Movie That Stays on the Rails

Shinji Higuchi ("Shin Godzilla") delivers an "Apollo 13"-style story about ordinary people coming together to resolve a blockbuster-sized disaster.

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NetflixIt’s tempting to describe Bullet Train Explosion as a spiritual successor to Speed, but the truth is that Speed itself was the copycat. Twenty years before Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock got trapped on that runaway bus, a Japanese film titled The Bullet Train introduced a similar premise: Held to ransom by an anonymous bomber, a crowded passenger train will explode if it slows below 80 km/h. Directed by Shinji Higuchi (Shin Godzilla; Shi…

"Bullet Train Explosion" : The Film Represents Kusanagi’s Best Starring Vehicle Yet

©Courtesy of Netflix  It released in 1975, the year after “The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3“, but it directly inspired Jan de Bont’s Speed (with Kanu Reeves, of course). Now, the Japanese transit disaster-thriller “Bullet Train“ has been remade, but in a way that clearly pays tribute to the original. Once again, there is a bomb aboard a high-speed Shinkansen train bound for Tokyo that will detonate if the velocity dips below 100 kph. This time there a…

If a mass transit vehicle with a large passenger capacity is hijacked, it will inevitably become a major crisis. The Japanese movie "Bullet Train Explosion" uses a high-speed train facing a bomb threat as a highlight, making the response to the crisis process a very interesting content. The background of the story is that a Japanese Shinkansen bullet train heading to Tokyo is suddenly threatened by an unknown terrorist. The gangster claims that …