The Bullet Train

The Bullet Train (新幹線大爆破, Shinkansen Daibakuha, lit. "Shinkansen Big Explosion") (also known as Super Express 109) is a 1975 Japanese action thriller film directed by Junya Satō 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 how to defuse the bomb.

The Bullet Train
Theatrical release poster
Directed byJunya Satō
Written byAri Katō
Screenplay by
  • Ryūnosuke Ono
  • Junya Satō
Produced by
  • Kanji Amao
  • Sunao Sakagami
Starring
CinematographyMasahiko Iimura
Edited byOsamu Tanaka
Music byHachirō Aoyama
Distributed byToei Company
Release date
  • 5 July 1975 (1975-07-05)
Running time
152 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese
Budget¥530 million
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