Cast: Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, Kanata Hosoda, Non, Jun Kaname, Machiko Ono, Hana Toyoshima
Director: Shinji Higuchi
Rating: 2.5/5
Runtime: 134 min

1975’s “The Bullet Train,” presented the idea of a bomb threat on a train that can’t slow down, “Speed” was a sort of remake expanding the same concept to include a moving bus then we also had our very own desi disaster movie in ‘The Burning Train’ which borrowed the same idea and gave it the usual Bollywood treatment and now we have ‘Bullet Train Explosion’ a Japanese movie with the same concept and a gradually increasing sense of urgency.    

“Bullet Train Explosion,” reuses the central crisis of ‘The Bullet Train’ while also striving to go further ahead in terms of timelines, technology and motivation. Director Shinji Higuchi of  “Shin Godzilla” and “Shin Ultraman” fame goes from giant threats to locomotives in peril, a disaster movie about survival and shame. It’s a 134 minutes long and arduous journey that manages to turn assorted beats of suspense into heavy weather drama.