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' The Shinkansen's Big Explosion ') is a 1975 Japanese action thriller film [4] directed by Junya Sato and starring Ken Takakura, Sonny Chiba, and Ken Utsui. When a Shinkansen ("bullet train") is threatened with a bomb that will explode automatically if it slows below 80 km/h unless a ransom is paid, police race to find the bombers and to learn ...
Bullet Train is a 2022 American action comedy film directed by David Leitch.It is based on the 2010 novel Maria Beetle (titled Bullet Train in the UK and US editions), written by Kōtarō Isaka and translated by Sam Malissa, the second novel in Isaka's Hitman series, of which the first novel was previously adapted as the 2015 Japanese film Grasshopper.
A JNR map from the October 1964 English-language timetable, showing the then-new Tokaido Shinkansen line (in red) and conventional lines A 0 series set in front of Mount Fuji. Japan was the first country to build dedicated railway lines for high-speed travel.
The Bullet Train (Shinkansen Daibakuha), a 1975 Japanese film; Bullet Train (band), a Japanese boyband; Bulletrain, a Swedish hard rock band "Bullet Train" (song), a song by Judas Priest; Bullet Train, a 2010 novel by Kōtarō Isaka Bullet Train, a 2022 film based on the novel Bullet Train, the 2022 soundtrack made for the film
Hideo Shima was honored by the Government of Japan when the Emperor presented him with the Order of Cultural Merit. [1] As one of the most prominent engineers in post-war Japan, he has also been awarded numerous international prizes and honors, including the Elmer A. Sperry Award by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the James Watt International Medal (Gold) by the British ...
The predecessor for the Tokaido and Sanyo Shinkansen lines was originally conceived at the end of the 1930s as a 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) standard gauge dangan ressha (bullet train) between Tokyo and Shimonoseki, which would have taken nine hours to cover the nearly 1,000-kilometer (620 mi) distance between the two cities.
Shinji Sogō (十河 信二, Sogō Shinji, 14 April 1884 – 3 October 1981) was the fourth president of the Japanese National Railways (JNR), and is credited with the creation of the first "bullet train", the Tōkaidō Shinkansen.
Bullet Train received "Rave" reviews according to the book review aggregator Book Marks based on seven independent reviews. [6] It received a starred review from Publishers Weekly [7] as well as Booklist, where Christine Tran described it as "a twisty, darkly hilarious game of musical chairs that draws out the train's hidden army of assassins and a strong dose of Machiavellian justice."