2025·Action·2h 17m
6.8
★
When panic erupts on a Tokyo-bound bullet train that will explode if it slows below 100 kph, authorities race against time to save everyone on board.
Directed by Shinji Higuchi
japan
police
bomb
remake
train
criminal
reboot
based on movie
frantic
high speed
didactic
gloomy
shinkansen
Rank
#152 in 2025·#4205 overall
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Cast
Tsuyoshi Kusanagi
Kazuya Takaichi
Machiko Ono
Yuko Kagami
Jun Kaname
Mitsuru Todoroki
Non
Chika Matsumoto
Kanata Hosoda
Keiji Fujii
Daisuke Kuroda
Kodai Hayashi
Satoru Matsuo
Masayoshi Goto
Suzuka Ohgo
Ichikawa
Hana Toyoshima
Yuzuki Onodera
Takumi Saitoh
Yuichi Kasagi
Matsuya Onoe
Yuki Fukuoka
Naomasa Musaka
Elettricista
Crew
Shinji Higuchi
Director
Kazuhiro Nakagawa
Screenplay
Norichika Oba
Screenplay
Atsuki Sato
Editor
Keizo Suzuki
Director of Photography
Atsuki Sato
VFX Supervisor
Keiya Tabuchi
Stunt Coordinator
Popular Reviews
227 reviews
Tori Batten
10.0★ · 05/21/26
OH. MY. GOD. WOW.
The collective discipline.
Instead of: “everyone screaming, selfish panic, random betrayal”,
the movie goes: “professionals doing their jobs with terrifying competence.”
It's sooo satisfying to watch. The crew trusts the engineers. The engineers trust the control center. The passengers mostly follow instructions. The government coordinates instead of collapsing into chaos.
Kasagi, Takaichi, and Matsumoto, thank you for never give up. Literally gave me chills.
The collective discipline.
Instead of: “everyone screaming, selfish panic, random betrayal”,
the movie goes: “professionals doing their jobs with terrifying competence.”
It's sooo satisfying to watch. The crew trusts the engineers. The engineers trust the control center. The passengers mostly follow instructions. The government coordinates instead of collapsing into chaos.
Kasagi, Takaichi, and Matsumoto, thank you for never give up. Literally gave me chills.
OH. MY. GOD. WOW.
The collective discipline.
Instead of: “everyone screaming, selfish panic, random betrayal”,
the movie goes: “professionals doing their jobs with terrifying competence.”
It's sooo satisfying to watch. The crew trusts the engineers. The engineers trust the control center. The passengers mostly follow instructions. The government coordinates instead of collapsing into chaos.
Kasagi, Takaichi, and Matsumoto, thank you for never give up. Literally gave me chills.
The collective discipline.
Instead of: “everyone screaming, selfish panic, random betrayal”,
the movie goes: “professionals doing their jobs with terrifying competence.”
It's sooo satisfying to watch. The crew trusts the engineers. The engineers trust the control center. The passengers mostly follow instructions. The government coordinates instead of collapsing into chaos.
Kasagi, Takaichi, and Matsumoto, thank you for never give up. Literally gave me chills.
Danny Reguinho
Imagine they tried to pull this off on NJ Transit? There'd be no hope.
Now that the first thing that came to mind it out of the way. My thoughts on this are unfortunately quite mixed. Higuchi does a solid job weaving together a tokusatsu spectacle about collective action and although not as frenetic and stylish as his last few outings, the film is very handsomely shot and the first 2 thirds are quite well paced. I thought the way the film handled it's legacy sequel elements were okay, the footage from the 1975 version were a welcome sight and the way the context from that film is integrated varied from interesting to well... this is where I get into where the film left me wanting more. The first film was largely a crime thriller that gave us a band of characters that felt thoroughly explored and were engaging to follow in the whole cat-and-mouse chase. This film decides to take the criminal element and tie it directly to the characters, both on screen and retroactive inclusions, of the first film. It makes the terror aspect lose all realism and really grinds the film to a halt. The politics here are also quite messy and I think in the time between the last film and this one, there's a lot of nuance that didnt survive to the modern Japanese film industry. So in the end, I feel left with a very entertaining action film from a talented director that I will probably have no interest in revisiting over its predecessor which clocks in like 20 minutes longer while feeling 20 minutes shorter.
Now that the first thing that came to mind it out of the way. My thoughts on this are unfortunately quite mixed. Higuchi does a solid job weaving together a tokusatsu spectacle about collective action and although not as frenetic and stylish as his last few outings, the film is very handsomely shot and the first 2 thirds are quite well paced. I thought the way the film handled it's legacy sequel elements were okay, the footage from the 1975 version were a welcome sight and the way the context from that film is integrated varied from interesting to well... this is where I get into where the film left me wanting more. The first film was largely a crime thriller that gave us a band of characters that felt thoroughly explored and were engaging to follow in the whole cat-and-mouse chase. This film decides to take the criminal element and tie it directly to the characters, both on screen and retroactive inclusions, of the first film. It makes the terror aspect lose all realism and really grinds the film to a halt. The politics here are also quite messy and I think in the time between the last film and this one, there's a lot of nuance that didnt survive to the modern Japanese film industry. So in the end, I feel left with a very entertaining action film from a talented director that I will probably have no interest in revisiting over its predecessor which clocks in like 20 minutes longer while feeling 20 minutes shorter.
Imagine they tried to pull this off on NJ Transit? There'd be no hope.
Now that the first thing that came to mind it out of the way. My thoughts on this are unfortunately quite mixed. Higuchi does a solid job weaving together a tokusatsu spectacle about collective action and although not as frenetic and stylish as his last few outings, the film is very handsomely shot and the first 2 thirds are quite well paced. I thought the way the film handled it's legacy sequel elements were okay, the footage from the 1975 version were a welcome sight and the way the context from that film is integrated varied from interesting to well... this is where I get into where the film left me wanting more. The first film was largely a crime thriller that gave us a band of characters that felt thoroughly explored and were engaging to follow in the whole cat-and-mouse chase. This film decides to take the criminal element and tie it directly to the characters, both on screen and retroactive inclusions, of the first film. It makes the terror aspect lose all realism and really grinds the film to a halt. The politics here are also quite messy and I think in the time between the last film and this one, there's a lot of nuance that didnt survive to the modern Japanese film industry. So in the end, I feel left with a very entertaining action film from a talented director that I will probably have no interest in revisiting over its predecessor which clocks in like 20 minutes longer while feeling 20 minutes shorter.
Now that the first thing that came to mind it out of the way. My thoughts on this are unfortunately quite mixed. Higuchi does a solid job weaving together a tokusatsu spectacle about collective action and although not as frenetic and stylish as his last few outings, the film is very handsomely shot and the first 2 thirds are quite well paced. I thought the way the film handled it's legacy sequel elements were okay, the footage from the 1975 version were a welcome sight and the way the context from that film is integrated varied from interesting to well... this is where I get into where the film left me wanting more. The first film was largely a crime thriller that gave us a band of characters that felt thoroughly explored and were engaging to follow in the whole cat-and-mouse chase. This film decides to take the criminal element and tie it directly to the characters, both on screen and retroactive inclusions, of the first film. It makes the terror aspect lose all realism and really grinds the film to a halt. The politics here are also quite messy and I think in the time between the last film and this one, there's a lot of nuance that didnt survive to the modern Japanese film industry. So in the end, I feel left with a very entertaining action film from a talented director that I will probably have no interest in revisiting over its predecessor which clocks in like 20 minutes longer while feeling 20 minutes shorter.
Danny Reguinho
Imagine they tried to pull this off on NJ Transit? There'd be no hope.
Now that the first thing that came to mind it out of the way. My thoughts on this are unfortunately quite mixed. Higuchi does a solid job weaving together a tokusatsu spectacle about collective action and although not as frenetic and stylish as his last few outings, the film is very handsomely shot and the first 2 thirds are quite well paced. I thought the way the film handled it's legacy sequel elements were okay, the footage from the 1975 version were a welcome sight and the way the context from that film is integrated varied from interesting to well... this is where I get into where the film left me wanting more. The first film was largely a crime thriller that gave us a band of characters that felt thoroughly explored and were engaging to follow in the whole cat-and-mouse chase. This film decides to take the criminal element and tie it directly to the characters, both on screen and retroactive inclusions, of the first film. It makes the terror aspect lose all realism and really grinds the film to a halt. The politics here are also quite messy and I think in the time between the last film and this one, there's a lot of nuance that didnt survive to the modern Japanese film industry. So in the end, I feel left with a very entertaining action film from a talented director that I will probably have no interest in revisiting over its predecessor which clocks in like 20 minutes longer while feeling 20 minutes shorter.
Now that the first thing that came to mind it out of the way. My thoughts on this are unfortunately quite mixed. Higuchi does a solid job weaving together a tokusatsu spectacle about collective action and although not as frenetic and stylish as his last few outings, the film is very handsomely shot and the first 2 thirds are quite well paced. I thought the way the film handled it's legacy sequel elements were okay, the footage from the 1975 version were a welcome sight and the way the context from that film is integrated varied from interesting to well... this is where I get into where the film left me wanting more. The first film was largely a crime thriller that gave us a band of characters that felt thoroughly explored and were engaging to follow in the whole cat-and-mouse chase. This film decides to take the criminal element and tie it directly to the characters, both on screen and retroactive inclusions, of the first film. It makes the terror aspect lose all realism and really grinds the film to a halt. The politics here are also quite messy and I think in the time between the last film and this one, there's a lot of nuance that didnt survive to the modern Japanese film industry. So in the end, I feel left with a very entertaining action film from a talented director that I will probably have no interest in revisiting over its predecessor which clocks in like 20 minutes longer while feeling 20 minutes shorter.
Imagine they tried to pull this off on NJ Transit? There'd be no hope.
Now that the first thing that came to mind it out of the way. My thoughts on this are unfortunately quite mixed. Higuchi does a solid job weaving together a tokusatsu spectacle about collective action and although not as frenetic and stylish as his last few outings, the film is very handsomely shot and the first 2 thirds are quite well paced. I thought the way the film handled it's legacy sequel elements were okay, the footage from the 1975 version were a welcome sight and the way the context from that film is integrated varied from interesting to well... this is where I get into where the film left me wanting more. The first film was largely a crime thriller that gave us a band of characters that felt thoroughly explored and were engaging to follow in the whole cat-and-mouse chase. This film decides to take the criminal element and tie it directly to the characters, both on screen and retroactive inclusions, of the first film. It makes the terror aspect lose all realism and really grinds the film to a halt. The politics here are also quite messy and I think in the time between the last film and this one, there's a lot of nuance that didnt survive to the modern Japanese film industry. So in the end, I feel left with a very entertaining action film from a talented director that I will probably have no interest in revisiting over its predecessor which clocks in like 20 minutes longer while feeling 20 minutes shorter.
Now that the first thing that came to mind it out of the way. My thoughts on this are unfortunately quite mixed. Higuchi does a solid job weaving together a tokusatsu spectacle about collective action and although not as frenetic and stylish as his last few outings, the film is very handsomely shot and the first 2 thirds are quite well paced. I thought the way the film handled it's legacy sequel elements were okay, the footage from the 1975 version were a welcome sight and the way the context from that film is integrated varied from interesting to well... this is where I get into where the film left me wanting more. The first film was largely a crime thriller that gave us a band of characters that felt thoroughly explored and were engaging to follow in the whole cat-and-mouse chase. This film decides to take the criminal element and tie it directly to the characters, both on screen and retroactive inclusions, of the first film. It makes the terror aspect lose all realism and really grinds the film to a halt. The politics here are also quite messy and I think in the time between the last film and this one, there's a lot of nuance that didnt survive to the modern Japanese film industry. So in the end, I feel left with a very entertaining action film from a talented director that I will probably have no interest in revisiting over its predecessor which clocks in like 20 minutes longer while feeling 20 minutes shorter.
Danny Reguinho
Imagine they tried to pull this off on NJ Transit? There'd be no hope.
Now that the first thing that came to mind it out of the way. My thoughts on this are unfortunately quite mixed. Higuchi does a solid job weaving together a tokusatsu spectacle about collective action and although not as frenetic and stylish as his last few outings, the film is very handsomely shot and the first 2 thirds are quite well paced. I thought the way the film handled it's legacy sequel elements were okay, the footage from the 1975 version were a welcome sight and the way the context from that film is integrated varied from interesting to well... this is where I get into where the film left me wanting more. The first film was largely a crime thriller that gave us a band of characters that felt thoroughly explored and were engaging to follow in the whole cat-and-mouse chase. This film decides to take the criminal element and tie it directly to the characters, both on screen and retroactive inclusions, of the first film. It makes the terror aspect lose all realism and really grinds the film to a halt. The politics here are also quite messy and I think in the time between the last film and this one, there's a lot of nuance that didnt survive to the modern Japanese film industry. So in the end, I feel left with a very entertaining action film from a talented director that I will probably have no interest in revisiting over its predecessor which clocks in like 20 minutes longer while feeling 20 minutes shorter.
Now that the first thing that came to mind it out of the way. My thoughts on this are unfortunately quite mixed. Higuchi does a solid job weaving together a tokusatsu spectacle about collective action and although not as frenetic and stylish as his last few outings, the film is very handsomely shot and the first 2 thirds are quite well paced. I thought the way the film handled it's legacy sequel elements were okay, the footage from the 1975 version were a welcome sight and the way the context from that film is integrated varied from interesting to well... this is where I get into where the film left me wanting more. The first film was largely a crime thriller that gave us a band of characters that felt thoroughly explored and were engaging to follow in the whole cat-and-mouse chase. This film decides to take the criminal element and tie it directly to the characters, both on screen and retroactive inclusions, of the first film. It makes the terror aspect lose all realism and really grinds the film to a halt. The politics here are also quite messy and I think in the time between the last film and this one, there's a lot of nuance that didnt survive to the modern Japanese film industry. So in the end, I feel left with a very entertaining action film from a talented director that I will probably have no interest in revisiting over its predecessor which clocks in like 20 minutes longer while feeling 20 minutes shorter.
Imagine they tried to pull this off on NJ Transit? There'd be no hope.
Now that the first thing that came to mind it out of the way. My thoughts on this are unfortunately quite mixed. Higuchi does a solid job weaving together a tokusatsu spectacle about collective action and although not as frenetic and stylish as his last few outings, the film is very handsomely shot and the first 2 thirds are quite well paced. I thought the way the film handled it's legacy sequel elements were okay, the footage from the 1975 version were a welcome sight and the way the context from that film is integrated varied from interesting to well... this is where I get into where the film left me wanting more. The first film was largely a crime thriller that gave us a band of characters that felt thoroughly explored and were engaging to follow in the whole cat-and-mouse chase. This film decides to take the criminal element and tie it directly to the characters, both on screen and retroactive inclusions, of the first film. It makes the terror aspect lose all realism and really grinds the film to a halt. The politics here are also quite messy and I think in the time between the last film and this one, there's a lot of nuance that didnt survive to the modern Japanese film industry. So in the end, I feel left with a very entertaining action film from a talented director that I will probably have no interest in revisiting over its predecessor which clocks in like 20 minutes longer while feeling 20 minutes shorter.
Now that the first thing that came to mind it out of the way. My thoughts on this are unfortunately quite mixed. Higuchi does a solid job weaving together a tokusatsu spectacle about collective action and although not as frenetic and stylish as his last few outings, the film is very handsomely shot and the first 2 thirds are quite well paced. I thought the way the film handled it's legacy sequel elements were okay, the footage from the 1975 version were a welcome sight and the way the context from that film is integrated varied from interesting to well... this is where I get into where the film left me wanting more. The first film was largely a crime thriller that gave us a band of characters that felt thoroughly explored and were engaging to follow in the whole cat-and-mouse chase. This film decides to take the criminal element and tie it directly to the characters, both on screen and retroactive inclusions, of the first film. It makes the terror aspect lose all realism and really grinds the film to a halt. The politics here are also quite messy and I think in the time between the last film and this one, there's a lot of nuance that didnt survive to the modern Japanese film industry. So in the end, I feel left with a very entertaining action film from a talented director that I will probably have no interest in revisiting over its predecessor which clocks in like 20 minutes longer while feeling 20 minutes shorter.
Danny Reguinho
Imagine they tried to pull this off on NJ Transit? There'd be no hope.
Now that the first thing that came to mind it out of the way. My thoughts on this are unfortunately quite mixed. Higuchi does a solid job weaving together a tokusatsu spectacle about collective action and although not as frenetic and stylish as his last few outings, the film is very handsomely shot and the first 2 thirds are quite well paced. I thought the way the film handled it's legacy sequel elements were okay, the footage from the 1975 version were a welcome sight and the way the context from that film is integrated varied from interesting to well... this is where I get into where the film left me wanting more. The first film was largely a crime thriller that gave us a band of characters that felt thoroughly explored and were engaging to follow in the whole cat-and-mouse chase. This film decides to take the criminal element and tie it directly to the characters, both on screen and retroactive inclusions, of the first film. It makes the terror aspect lose all realism and really grinds the film to a halt. The politics here are also quite messy and I think in the time between the last film and this one, there's a lot of nuance that didnt survive to the modern Japanese film industry. So in the end, I feel left with a very entertaining action film from a talented director that I will probably have no interest in revisiting over its predecessor which clocks in like 20 minutes longer while feeling 20 minutes shorter.
Now that the first thing that came to mind it out of the way. My thoughts on this are unfortunately quite mixed. Higuchi does a solid job weaving together a tokusatsu spectacle about collective action and although not as frenetic and stylish as his last few outings, the film is very handsomely shot and the first 2 thirds are quite well paced. I thought the way the film handled it's legacy sequel elements were okay, the footage from the 1975 version were a welcome sight and the way the context from that film is integrated varied from interesting to well... this is where I get into where the film left me wanting more. The first film was largely a crime thriller that gave us a band of characters that felt thoroughly explored and were engaging to follow in the whole cat-and-mouse chase. This film decides to take the criminal element and tie it directly to the characters, both on screen and retroactive inclusions, of the first film. It makes the terror aspect lose all realism and really grinds the film to a halt. The politics here are also quite messy and I think in the time between the last film and this one, there's a lot of nuance that didnt survive to the modern Japanese film industry. So in the end, I feel left with a very entertaining action film from a talented director that I will probably have no interest in revisiting over its predecessor which clocks in like 20 minutes longer while feeling 20 minutes shorter.
Imagine they tried to pull this off on NJ Transit? There'd be no hope.
Now that the first thing that came to mind it out of the way. My thoughts on this are unfortunately quite mixed. Higuchi does a solid job weaving together a tokusatsu spectacle about collective action and although not as frenetic and stylish as his last few outings, the film is very handsomely shot and the first 2 thirds are quite well paced. I thought the way the film handled it's legacy sequel elements were okay, the footage from the 1975 version were a welcome sight and the way the context from that film is integrated varied from interesting to well... this is where I get into where the film left me wanting more. The first film was largely a crime thriller that gave us a band of characters that felt thoroughly explored and were engaging to follow in the whole cat-and-mouse chase. This film decides to take the criminal element and tie it directly to the characters, both on screen and retroactive inclusions, of the first film. It makes the terror aspect lose all realism and really grinds the film to a halt. The politics here are also quite messy and I think in the time between the last film and this one, there's a lot of nuance that didnt survive to the modern Japanese film industry. So in the end, I feel left with a very entertaining action film from a talented director that I will probably have no interest in revisiting over its predecessor which clocks in like 20 minutes longer while feeling 20 minutes shorter.
Now that the first thing that came to mind it out of the way. My thoughts on this are unfortunately quite mixed. Higuchi does a solid job weaving together a tokusatsu spectacle about collective action and although not as frenetic and stylish as his last few outings, the film is very handsomely shot and the first 2 thirds are quite well paced. I thought the way the film handled it's legacy sequel elements were okay, the footage from the 1975 version were a welcome sight and the way the context from that film is integrated varied from interesting to well... this is where I get into where the film left me wanting more. The first film was largely a crime thriller that gave us a band of characters that felt thoroughly explored and were engaging to follow in the whole cat-and-mouse chase. This film decides to take the criminal element and tie it directly to the characters, both on screen and retroactive inclusions, of the first film. It makes the terror aspect lose all realism and really grinds the film to a halt. The politics here are also quite messy and I think in the time between the last film and this one, there's a lot of nuance that didnt survive to the modern Japanese film industry. So in the end, I feel left with a very entertaining action film from a talented director that I will probably have no interest in revisiting over its predecessor which clocks in like 20 minutes longer while feeling 20 minutes shorter.