Netflix has released a teaser for Japanese action movie Bullet Train Explosion, set to come to the streamer in April.
Directed by Shin Godzilla's Shinji Higuchi, the film is a remake of 1975's The Bullet Train — one of the original inspirations for Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock's cult Speed.
The premise of Bullet Train Explosion isn't that different from that of Speed, which takes place on a bus running in circles around Los Angeles. If it stops, the bomb planted onboard will go off.
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In the upcoming movie, the safety of crew and passengers aboard the Hayabusa 60 shinkansen bound for Tokyo is threatened by a bomb that will immediately detonate if the train slows below 100 km/h.
As the bomber demands a ransom of ¥100 billion for the lives of everyone aboard, the train crew and the government will have to work together to defuse the bomb and find who's responsible.
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"Getting our passengers safely there is the reason why we're here," determined train conductor Kazuya Takaichi (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi) says in the first trailer for the movie, which you can watch at the top of this article.
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As train driver Chika Matsumoto (Non) vows to "never stop", the government's interests seem to clash with those of the workers on the train.
Passengers from different walks of life on the shinkansen, including members of the House of Representatives Kagami (Machiko Ono), YouTuber Todoroki (Jun Kaname), and student Yuzuki Onodera (Hana Toyoshima).
Meanwhile, Takumi Saitoh plays Kasagi, the general commanding officer of the Shinkansen General Operation Control Center, who's overseeing the rescue operations remotely.
Bullet Train Explosion is released on Netflix on April 23.
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