They said it couldn't happen... But for 1500 passengers Bullet Train 109 became a nightmare journey that just couldn't be stopped!
A Japanese 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 so the train crew can learn how to defuse the bomb.
- 6.8
- 1975
- Released
- 2h 32m
Ken Takakura
Tetsuo Okita
Sonny Chiba
Aoki
Kei Yamamoto
Masaru Koga
Eiji Gō
Shinji Fujio
Akira Oda
Hiroshi Ôshiro
Raita Ryu
Kikuchi
Masayo Utsunomiya
Yasuko
Ken Utsui
Kuramochi
Yumiko Fujita
Akiyama
Yumi Takigawa
SAS Staff
Etsuko Shihomi
Telephone Operator
Fumio Watanabe
Miyashita
Toyoto Fukuda
Tashiro
Hiroko Fuji
Female Teacher
Junko Matsudaira
Cashier
Tetsuro Tamba
Sunaga
Takashi Shimura
JNR President
Kunie Tanaka
Koga's Brother
Saburo Date
Businessman's Man
Yutaka Hayashi
Naka-yan
Yoshibumi Tajima
Sasaki
Mizuho Suzuki
HanamuraKoreharu Hisatomi
Hirota
Yoshirō Aoki
Senda
Jirô Chiba
Construction Vehicle OfficerKiyoto Harada
Miyake
Akira Hamada
NagataKeisuke Nakai
Tetsu-chan
Kiyoshi Yamamoto
Takazawa
Sen Yano
Minami
Hiroshi Kondō
Matsubara
Hiroshi Tanaka
Tsutsumi
Hirohisa Nakata
Tokyo Working Office Clerk-in-charge
Akio Yokoyama
SuperintendentYoshitaro Asawaka
Passenger B
Shun Ueda
Shûichi HiraoKen'ichi Matsuno
Komiya
Miyako Tasaka
Kazuko HiraoHanako Tokachi
Female Passenegr A
Yumiko Katayama
Bar WomanTaeko Watanabe
Koga's Sister-in-lawRin Tsunami
Akanesô OkamiMitsuru Mori
Yôko
Akiko Kazami
Yasuko's MotherHajime Shoji
Passenger A
Osamu Saka
Kakuya Saeki
NoguchiSeigo Fukuoka
Sugimura
Koichi Iwaki
Akira Tôgô
Nenji Kobayashi
Morimoto
Goro Kataoka
SawaraRikinaga Nakano
Osaka BusinessmanTakashi Hio
Riot Policeman
Kōji Fujiyama
Hiro-okaSo Takizawa
KawamuraSeiya Satō
Passenger CShinji Nakahara
Kôan Ikka ChôYusuke Mori
HataKazuo Sato
OnoHachiro Okamoto
Yama-chanHajime Akutsu
Susumu Kurobe
Gotô
Genji Kawai
Detective SuperintendentToshiyuki Tsuchiyama
Iwagami
Keiko Aikawa
WaitressToshie Kokabu
Cleaning WomanNorio Yamashita
ShimizuRyō Suga
ManIsamu Matsuzawa
Shôji Yamamoto
Midori Yamamoto
Female CustomerAkira Kuji
Fireman
Gōzō Sōma
Detective CKōichi Yamada
Passenger EOsamu Kimura
Correspondent AChikara Gonoue
Detective AChū Takatsuki
Hamamatsu Station StaffHaruki Jo
Cook BTakeshige Hatanaka
Isamu Hamada
Teruo Shimizu
Substation StaffTatsuya Kameyama
PolicemanSakae Yamaura
Cook AShinzo Tanabe
Claustrophobic ManTakuji Aoki
Passenger DJirō Sagawa
Fumiaki Nakajô
Passenger FYasuto Sugawara
Ken-ichiYukiteru Akiyama
Masayuki Kawaguchi
Hisako Oka
Keiko Itō
Ryozo Mihara
Kengo Miyaji
Yoshitaka Nagaoka
Young ManShōhachi Uchikoshi
Stationmaster ShimuraShin'ichi Iwai
Yoshifumi Watanabe
Naoko Izumi
Fumio Niikura
Michiko Maeda
Yutaka Shino
Akemi Fujiki
Masataka Kikuchi
Kimitaka Ôizumi
Shigeru Yokoyama
Sanetoshi Takatori
Shizuyo Uno
Hideyuki Fujii
Akira Yamanouchi
Cabinet Chief Secretary
Tomo'o Nagai
Bullet Train Overseas HQ ChiefKin'ya Kitaôji
Tamio Kawachi
SatôDennis Falt
Train Passenger
Released
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- #terrorism
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- #passenger train
- #train ride
- #train passengers
- #shinkansen
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In the early 70s, disaster movies started gaining popularity with the likes of <i>Airport</i> (1970), The <i>Poseidon Adventure</i> (1972), <i>The Towering Inferno </i>(1974), and <i>Earthquake</i> (1974). These movies killed it at the domestic and international box offices. Toei, one of the Big Four Japanese film studios at the time, noticed and wanted to take advantage of the trend. Japan’s famo