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The Bullet Train is a japonais film of genre Drama directed by Jun'ya Satō released in USA on 1 january 1976 with Ken Takakura

The Bullet Train (1975)

新幹線大爆破

The Bullet Train
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Released in USA 1 january 1976
Length 1h55
Directed by
OriginJapon
Genres Drama,    Thriller,    Action,    Crime
Rating67% 3.3964153.3964153.3964153.3964153.396415

The Bullet Train (新幹線大爆破, Shinkansen Daibakuha, lit. "Shinkansen Big Explosion") is a 1975 Japanese disaster film directed by Junya Satō and starring Sonny Chiba and Ken Takakura. A Shinkansen "bullet train" is threatened with a bomb that will explode automatically if the train slows below 80 km/h unless a ransom is paid. Police race to find the bombers and to learn how to defuse the bomb.

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Tetsuo Okita is a former businessman who lost his manufacturing company to bankruptcy and separated from his wife and son a year earlier. Desperate to make ends meet and start over, he collaborates with activist Masaru Koga and his former employee Hiroshi Ōshiro in an elaborate plot to extort money from the government.

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