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Filmmaker Shinji Higuchi reveals the inspirations behind the train drama that reached No. 2 in the streamer's global ...
Like his previous film “Shin Godzilla,” director Shinji Higuchi’s follow-up to the 1975 Japanese film “The Bullet Train” explores with meticulous and realistic detail what a bureaucratic response ...
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Japanese filmmaker Shinji Higuchi finds beauty in bullet trains specifically so he can destroy them on screen, a creative paradox that defines his latest film, Netflix's "Bullet Train Explosion ...
The plan then goes underway, and of course, it all pays off. The two switches are pulled at the exact moment they should be, the majority of the train safely explodes away from people, and all nine ...
And it takes center stage in Shinji Higuchi’s new film, “Bullet Train Explosion,” which premieres on Netflix Wednesday. Higuchi, the director of the 2016 “Shin Godzilla” (or “New ...
Directed by veteran filmmaker Shinji Higuchi and starring singer-actor Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, Bullet Train Explosion is the latest lively, highly-charged tentpole title on Netflix‘s Japanese slate.
The biggest stretch in Shinji Higuchi’s follow-up to the 1975 Japanese film “The Bullet Train” is that a bureaucracy comes together effectively to try and alleviate a disaster. Following an ...
Amid the high-octane, action-filled sequences, Higuchi’s film also offers up several moral questions about life’s dignity and worth. “When we make a film, we can do many things,” Higuchi ...