Movie review: 'Bullet Train Explosion' celebrates speed, teamwork

The Story Behind Bullet Train Explosion

Trains have been popular in cinema arguably since the beginning of film, when the Lumière brothers’ “The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station” became one of the first movies ever made and commercially screened in 1896. From the silent Civil War movie The General to Alfred Hitchcock’s suspenseful Strangers on a Train to the quiet romance of Before Sunrise, trains propel narratives across genre and time. For the Japanese filmmaker Shinji Higuch…

Movie review: 'Bullet Train Explosion' celebrates speed, teamwork

"Bullet Train Explosion," on Netflix Thursday, harkens back to the glory days of disaster movies with a speeding train and teamwork between passengers, conductors and railway crew.

‘Bullet Train Explosion’ Director Shinji Higuchi Talks Casting Singer-Actor Tsuyoshi Kusanagi & The Film’s Moral Questions

Directed by veteran filmmaker Shinji Higuchi and starring singer-actor Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, Bullet Train Explosion is the latest lively, highly-charged tentpole title on Netflix’s Japanese slate. Higuchi has made some of Japan’s biggest blockbusters, including Shin Godzilla, Shin Ultraman and Attack on Titan. Bullet Train Explosion follows a ‘shinkansen’ (bullet train) bound for Tokyo, which soon comes under a bomb threat. The bombs on the train…

‘Shin Godzilla’ Director Shinji Higuchi on Netflix’s ‘Bullet Train Explosion’ and His Love for Cinematic Destruction: It ‘Really Excites Me in a Weird Way’

Japanese filmmaker Shinji Higuchi finds beauty in bullet trains specifically so he can destroy them on screen, a creative paradox that defines his latest film, Netflix’s “Bullet Train Explosion,” and much of his celebrated career. “The order, the precision that it symbolizes and something that’s stable… That’s something that I’m drawn to, and because I […]

Bullet Train Explosion Review: Does the Netflix Remake Live Up to the Original?

The 1994 Keanu Reeves action thriller Speed — the story of a bomb on a bus that will blow if the vehicle goes slower than 50 miles per hour — only exists because the screenwriter’s father mixed up two movies.  Long ago, writer Graham Yost was recommended the 1985 Jon Voight movie Runaway Train by […] The post Before Keanu Reeves’ Speed, There Was The Bullet Train appeared first on Tokyo Weekender.

'Bullet Train Explosion' Netflix Review: A Tense But Thought-Provoking Legacy Sequel To 1975 Film

Like every other ‘90s kid who was just getting into the action genre, Speed was (and still is) my go-to movie when I was in the mood for some thrills and chills. Nowadays, so many movies have strapped bombs to locomotives ready to be triggered if said locomotives fail to maintain a certain velocity that the concept won’t exactly surprise anybody. But back then, watching Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock maneuver a public bus while trying to figure…