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Directed by | Junya Sato |
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Based on | Ari Kato (concept) |
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Edited by | Osamu Tanaka |
Music by | Hachiro Aoyama |
Distributed by | Toei Company |
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Running time | 152 minutes[1][2] |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
Budget | ¥530 million[3] |
The Bullet Train (Japanese: 新幹線大爆破, Hepburn: Shinkansen Daibakuha, lit. 'The Shinkansen's Big Explosion') is a 1975 Japanese action thriller film[4] directed by Junya Sato and starring Ken Takakura, Sonny Chiba, and Ken Utsui. When a Shinkansen ("bullet train") is threatened with a bomb that will explode automatically if it slows below 80 km/h unless a ransom is paid, police race to find the bombers and to learn how to defuse the bomb.
A remake, set to premiere on Netflix in 2025 and directed by Shinji Higuchi, was announced in November 2024.[5]