Filmmaker Shinji Higuchi reveals the inspirations behind the train drama that reached No. 2 in the streamer's global ...

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

Bullet Train Explosion cleverly incorporates cultural and historical references that add depth to the story. The very premise is connected directly to the 1975 movie The Bullet Train, which makes ...

From the silent Civil War movie The General ... to show real bullet trains on the screen.” When filming on a real-size bullet train carriage was not possible for a scene, Shinji used miniature ...

Even without a movie star fighting his way up and down the trail (à la “Bullet ... his scenes — a type of cooperation that speaks to the sensitivity of its fictionalized treatment of train ...

Then in 1975, there was the original movie, [The Bullet Train]. The poster showed the ... idea to JR in the beginning, they said the scenes where [the conductor] leaves a voicemail on his ...

That original movie also inspired Hollywood's "Speed ... and Tsuyoshi Kusanagi in a scene from "Bullet Train Explosion." (Netflix via AP) The film's realism was achieved by a smooth combination ...

Released on April 23, 2025, Bullet Train Explosionis a white-knuckle thriller set aboard Japan's ultra-fast Shinkansen. The ...

But while that movie ... “Bullet Train Explosion” is its two-hour runtime. It really didn’t need to be that long. I definitely felt the plot dragging in places. There were so many scenes ...