Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Bullet Train Explosion’ on Netflix, a Tumescent Remake of Beloved Japanese Thriller ‘Bullet Train’ By John Serba Published April 23, 2025, 6:00 p.m. ET Powered by ...

Several new Bullet Train Explosion characters with connections to characters from the 1975 film appear. Firstly, a retired officer who was a responder to the original hostage situation appears.

Following an opening credits sequence that plays like a sizzle reel for the film, “Bullet Train Explosion” begins in a station where the Hayabusa No. 60 train is bound for Tokyo. Despite the ...

The bullet trains have long been a symbol of Japan’s blossoming as a modern economy and peaceful culture in the decades following World War II. The first leg, connecting Tokyo with Osaka, opened ...

Shinji Higuchi’s action thriller Bullet Train Explosion debuted on Netflix on April 23 with something of a bang, with the movie enthusiastically embraced by viewers and climbing as high as No. 2 ...

It’s tempting to describe Bullet Train Explosion as a spiritual successor to Speed, but the truth is that Speed itself was the copycat. Twenty years before Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock got ...

Bullet Train Explosion is now out on Netflix so let's delve into the ending of the action thriller to explain who hid the bomb and any other questions you have.

But “Bullet Train Explosion” feels like a blockbuster made for adults — or let’s say, not for a lowest-common-denominator audience — where the priority is throwing challenges and ...

In that regard, "Bullet Train Explosion" meets a believability threshold that feels virtually unparalleled. Like his previous film "Shin Godzilla," director Shinji Higuchi's follow-up to the 1975 ...

Higuchi, the director of the 2016 “Shin Godzilla” (or “New Godzilla,") has reimagined the 1975 Japanese film “The Bullet Train," which has the same premise: A bomb will go off if the train ...