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Directed by | Junya Satō |
Written by | Ari Katō |
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Cinematography | Masahiko Iimura |
Edited by | Osamu Tanaka |
Music by | Hachirō Aoyama |
Distributed by | Toei Company |
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Running time | 152 minutes[1] |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
Budget | ¥530 million[2] |
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[3] directed by Junya Satō and starring Ken Takakura, Sonny Chiba, and Ken Utsui.[4][failed verification] 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.