Bullet Train Explosion director Shinji Higuchi on examining evil in the Netflix movie
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Higuchi, the director of the 2016 film
Shin Godzilla , has reimagined the 1975 Japanese film The Bullet Train, which has the same premise: a bomb will go off if the train slows to below 100km/h (62mph).
That movie also inspired Hollywood's Speed, starring
Keanu Reeves , which takes place mostly on a bus.
Higuchi recalls being fascinated by the aerodynamically shaped bullet trains growing up as they roared by, almost like a violent animal. To him, as to many Japanese, the Shinkansen – as the trains are called in Japan – symbolise the nation's efforts to become 'top-rate', superfast, precise, orderly and on time.
'It's so characteristically Japanese,' Higuchi says. 'To complete your work, even if it means sacrificing your personal life, is like a samurai spirit living within all Japanese.'
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