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The term bullet train (弾丸列車, dangan ressha) originates from 1939, and was the initial name given to the Shinkansen project in its earliest planning stages. [13] Furthermore, the name super express ( 超特急 , chō-tokkyū ) , used exclusively until 1972 for Hikari trains on the Tōkaidō Shinkansen , is used today in English-language ...
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.
The Bullet Train (Japanese: 新幹線大爆破, Hepburn: Shinkansen Daibakuha, lit. ' 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 .
Caribou (train), a passenger train formerly used in Newfoundland and colloquially referred to as The Newfie Bullet; Bullet, a former passenger train of the Central Railroad of New Jersey; Bullet (interurban), a high-speed U.S. interurban rail car inaugurated in 1931; Bathurst Bullet, a passenger train connecting Sydney and Bathurst, Australia
In Japan, there is a so-called "4-hour wall" in high-speed rail's market share: If the high-speed rail journey time exceeds 4 hours, then people likely choose planes over high-speed rail. For instance, from Tokyo to Osaka, a 2h22m-journey by Shinkansen, high-speed rail has an 85% market share whereas planes have 15%.
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.
The twenty-fourth film, Case Closed: The Scarlet Bullet, known as Detective Conan: The Scarlet Bullet (名探偵コナン 緋色の弾丸, Meitantei Conan: Hiiro no Dangan) in Japan, was supposed to be released to Japanese theaters on April 17, 2020, but was postponed to April 16, 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mashin Sentai Kiramager is a Japanese tokusatsu television series, the first series in the franchise filmed during the Reiwa period and the 44th entry of the Toei Company's long-running Super Sentai franchise produced by TV Asahi.