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

From director Shinji Higuchi comes the Netflix disaster movie Bullet Train Explosion, an exciting remake of the 1975 film The Bullet Train. Like the original, Bullet Train Explosion follows a ...

In an age of perpetual crisis, disaster movies have started to feel like a form of escapism. Sure, they depict things going horribly wrong, but they also offer hope that people might manage to ...

The film balances action and drama like the classic disaster movies of the '70s and '90s. Tsuyohshi Kusanagi plays Takaichi, the conductor of a train to Tokyo that happens to be hosting Yuzuki ...

[The Bullet Train]. The poster showed the Shinkansen blowing up, but when you actually saw the movie, though, it didn’t explode! Because it would be a disaster if it actually exploded ...

It’s tempting to describe Bullet Train Explosion as a spiritual successor ... committing to an engagingly silly type of disaster movie. Within the first few minutes, you begin to wonder if ...

A Shinkansen train will blow up if it slows to less than ... Railway Company as the “Shin Godzilla” director’s kaiju movies have been skeptical of the Japanese government — isn’t fueled ...

Bullet Train Explosion, also known as Shinkansen Daibakuha, is a Japanese action thriller movie directed by Shinji Higuchi. The movie premiered on Netflix on April 23, 2025, and is a legacy sequel ...

What Movies Will It Remind You Of?: Note: Not to be confused with 2022’s Brad Pitt snarkfest Bullet Train. Otherwise, looking past its Predecessors Of The Exact Same Concept, you’ve got your ...

As for whether the movie is based on a true story ... (Image via Prime Video) The Bullet Train is a Japanese thriller-disaster film by Junya Satō. The film takes us along with the Hikari 109 ...