The Bullet Train
The Bullet Train
新幹線大爆破
Shinkansen Daibakaha
Bullet Train Great Explosion
Also known as | Super Express 109 |
Director | Junya Sato |
Original Story | Arei Kato |
Screenplay |
Ryunosuke Onoe Junya Sato |
Photography |
Masahiko Iimura Yoshikazu Yamasawa Masao Shimizu |
Art |
Shuichiro Nakamura Tadayuki Kuwana |
Sound | Kenzo Inoue |
Lighting |
Yasuyuki Kawasaki Shigeru Umeya |
Editor | Osamu Tanaka |
Music | Hachiro Aoyama |
Production Companies | Toei |
Release Date | July 5, 1975 |
Runtime | 152 minutes |
新幹線大爆破 Shinkansen Daibakaha Bullet Train Great Explosion |
Director | Junya Sato |
Original Story | Arei Kato |
Screenplay |
Ryunosuke Onoe Junya Sato |
Photography |
Masahiko Iimura Yoshikazu Yamasawa Masao Shimizu |
Art |
Shuichiro Nakamura Tadayuki Kuwana |
Sound | Kenzo Inoue |
Lighting |
Yasuyuki Kawasaki Shigeru Umeya |
Editor | Osamu Tanaka |
Music | Hachiro Aoyama |
Also known as | Super Express 109 |
Production Companies | Toei |
Release Date | July 5, 1975 |
Runtime | 152 minutes |
The transportation authority receives a bomb threat for the Hikari 109, a bullet train which has just left the station. Whereas normally the train would stop in order to be searched, this bomb is triggered to detonate when the train slows below 80 kilometers per hour. A freight train is destroyed in a separate incident, proving that such a sophisticated bomb does exist. The authority has until the train reaches the end of the line, some six hours later at lowest safe speed, to cooperate with the bomber.
The bomber, Okita, arranges to have the ransom money dropped off where he can retrieve it without being identified. Once he absconds with the ransom, he tells the transporation authority that a schematic of the bomb has been left at a nearby cafe. However, the cafe is destroyed in a freak accident, and the schematic is lost. Okita prepares to leave the country, oblivious that the train is still hurtling towards destruction. High speed cameras are set up alongside the track to film the underside of the carriages, and the bomb is located underneath the second car.
A rescue train is brought alongside the Hikari 109 to deliver welding equipment. The conductor burns a hole through the underside of the car to reach the bomb and successfully disarms it. The Hikari 109 slows to a safe stop outside of Hakata, its last stop. Okita is nearly aboard his flight when his estranged wife and son, planted by police near the boarding ramp, identify him. Okita leads the police on a chase through the airport complex and is shot dead while trying to escape.
Top Billed Cast
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Top Billed Cast
Tetsuo Okita
Conductor Aoki
Masaru Koga
Shinji Fujio
Hiroshi Oshiro
Railway Security Officer Kikuchi
Yasuko Tomita (Okita's Wife)
Doctor Akiyama
Airline Receptionist
JNR Telephone Operator
JNR Security Chief Yoshinori Miyashita
Conductor Tashiro
Clerk
Sun Plaza Waitress
Chief Detective Hirota
Detective Senda
Relief Train Conductor
Chief Engineer Miyake
Detective Nagata
Passenger
Manager Takasawa
Minami
Detective Matsubara
Detective Tsutsumi
Shinkansen Tokyo Staff
Passenger
Apartment Landlord
Kazuko's Husband
Detective Sasaki
Kazuko Hirao (Pregnant Passenger)
Snack Family Hostess
Koga's Sister-in-Law
Apartment Tenant
Yoko Taguchi (Snack Family Hostess)
Yasuko's Mother
Passenger
TV Announcer
Controller Noguchi
Conductor Morimoto
Detective Sahara
Passenger
Reporter
Conductor Kawamura
Passenger
Public Security Chief
Detective Goto
Detective Iwakami
Detective Ueno
Dining Car Cook
Freight Train Conductor
TV Singer
Dining Car Cook
Kenichi (Okita's Son)
Freight Train Conductor
JNR President
Chief Cabinet Secretary
JNR Shinkansen Director
Police Manager Hanamura
Operations Chief Kuramochi
Police Director
Airport Detective
Detective Sato
Koga's Brother