The Bullet Train (1975) - Credits and Details

The Bullet Train Credits and Details

Directed by
	Jun'ya Satô
Written by
	Ryûnosuke Ono
	Jun'ya Satô
	Sunao Sakagami
Cast
	Ken Takakura	...	Tetsuo Okita
	Shin'ichi Chiba	...	Aoki (as Sonny Chiba)
	Kei Yamamoto	...	Masaru Koga
	Eiji Gô	...	Shinji Fujio
	Akira Oda	...	Hiroshi Ôshiro
	Raita Ryû	...	Kikuchi
	Masayo Utsunomiya	...	Yasuko
	Yumiko Fujita	...	Akiyama
	Yumi Takigawa	...	SAS Staff
	Etsuko Shihomi	...	Telephone Operator
	Fumio Watanabe	...	Miyashita
	Toyoto Fukuda	...	Tashiro
	Hiroko Fuji	...	Female Teacher
	Junko Matsudaira	...	Cashier
	Koreharu Hisatomi	...	Hirota
	Yoshirô Aoki	...	Senda
	Jirô Yabuki	...	Construction Vehicle Officer (as Jirô Chiba)
	Kiyoto Harada	...	Miyake
	Akira Hamada	...	Nagata
	Keisuke Nakai	...	Tetsu-chan
	Kiyoshi Yamamoto	...	Takazawa
	Sen Yano	...	Minami
	Hiroshi Kondô	...	Matsubara
	Hiroshi Tanaka	...	Tsutsumi
	Hirohisa Nakata	...	Tokyo Working Office Clerk-in-charge
	Yutaka Hayashi	...	Naka-yan
	Akio Yokoyama	...	Superintendent
	Yoshitarô Asawaka	...	Passenger B
	Shun Ueda	...	Shûichi Hirao
	Ken'ichi Matsuno	...	Komiya
	Yoshifumi Tajima	...	Sasaki
	Miyako Tasaka	...	Kazuko Hirao
	Hanako Tokachi	...	Female Passenegr A
	Yumiko Katayama	...	Bar Woman
	Taeko Watanabe	...	Koga's Sister-in-law
	Rin Tsunami	...	Akanesô Okami
	Mitsuru Mori	...	Yôko
	Akiko Kazami	...	Yasuko's Mother
	Hajime Shôji	...	Passenger A
	Osamu Saka
	Kakuya Saeki	...	Noguchi
	Seigô Fukuoka	...	Sugimura
	Kôichi Iwaki	...	Akira Tôgô
	Nenji Kobayashi	...	Morimoto
	Gorô Kataoka	...	Sawara
	Rikinaga Nakano	...	Osaka Businessman
	Takashi Hio	...	Riot Policeman (as Kôji Hio)
	Saburô Date	...	Businessman's Man
	Kôji Fujiyama	...	Hiro-oka
	Sô Takizawa	...	Kawamura
	Seiya Satô	...	Passenger C
	Shinji Nakahara	...	Kôan Ikka Chô
	Yûsuke Mori	...	Hata
	Kazuo Satô	...	Ono
	Hachirô Okamoto	...	Yama-chan
	Hajime Akutsu
	Susumu Kurobe	...	Gotô
	Genji Kawai	...	Detective Superintendent
	Toshiyuki Tsuchiyama	...	Iwagami
	Keiko Aikawa	...	Waitress
	Toshie Kokabu	...	Cleaning Woman
	Norio Yamashita	...	Shimizu
	Ryô Suga	...	Man
	Shôji Yamamoto
	Isamu Matsuzawa
	Midori Yamamoto	...	Female Customer
	Akira Kuji	...	Fireman
	Gôzô Sôma	...	Detective C
	Kôichi Yamada	...	Passenger E
	Osamu Kimura	...	Correspondent A
	Chikara Gonoue	...	Detective A (as Riki Gonoue)
	Tadashi Takatsuki	...	Hamamatsu Station Staff (as Chû Takatsuki)
	Haruki Jô	...	Cook B (as Haruki Jo)
	Takeshige Hatanaka
	Isamu Hamada
	Teruo Shimizu	...	Substation Staff
	Tatsuya Kameyama	...	Policeman
	Sakae Yamaura	...	Cook A
	Shinzô Tanabe	...	Claustrophobic Man
	Takuji Aoki	...	Passenger D
	Jirô Sagawa
	Fumiaki Nakajô	...	Passenger F
	Yasuto Sugawara	...	Ken-ichi
	Yukiteru Akiyama
	Masayuki Kawaguchi
	Hisako Oka
	Keiko Itô
	Ryôzô Mihara
	Kengo Miyaji
	Yoshitaka Nagaoka	...	Young Man
	Shôhachi Uchikoshi	...	Stationmaster Shimura (as Hisakazu Uchikoshi)
	Shin'ichi Iwai
	Yoshifumi Watanabe
	Naoko Izumi
	Fumio Niikura
	Michiko Maeda
	Yutaka Shino
	Akemi Fujiki
	Masataka Kikuchi
	Kimitaka Ôizumi
	Shigeru Yokoyama
	Sanetoshi Takatori
	Shizuyo Uno
	Hideyuki Fujii
	Takashi Shimura	...	JNR President
	Akira Yamanouchi	...	Cabinet Chief Secretary (as Akira Yamauchi)
	Tomo'o Nagai	...	Bullet Train Overseas HQ Chief
	Mizuho Suzuki	...	Hanamura
	Ken Utsui	...	Kuramochi
	Tetsurō Tanba	...	Sunaga
	Kin'ya Kitaôji
	Tamio Kawachi	...	Satô (as Tamio Kawachi)
	Kunie Tanaka	...	Koga's Brother
	Dennis Falt	...	Train passenger
Produced by
	Kanji Amao
	Sunao Sakagami
Original Music by
	Hachirô Aoyama

Additional Info
Premiere:	July 05, 1975
DVD Release:	April 16, 2002
Blu-ray Release:	November 28, 2023
Country:
Distributor:	Discotek Media
Websites:

Ratings
6.8 / 10

Alternate Titles
Negative Contact
Shinkansen Daibakuha
Super Express 109

Production Companies
Toei Company

Distributors
International Classics (1976) (United States) (dubbed) (theatrical)
Crash Cinema Media (2004) (United States) (DVD)
BCI Eclipse I (2006) (United States) (DVD)
Twilight Time (2016) (United States) (DVD)
Discotek Media (2023) (United States) (Blu-ray)

Filming Locations
Airport, Chitose, Hokkaido, Japan
Aragawa River, Saitama, Japan
Gaien Sotobori Road, Kanda, Tokyo, Japan
Haneda International Airport, Ota-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Higashi Ikebukuro, Tokyo, Japan
Iwate Village, Iwate, Japan
Kanda Interchange, Kanda, Tokyo, Japan
Meguro, Tokyo, Japan
Nishigawa Bridge, Iwakuni, Yamaguchi, Japan
Nogami Station, Saitama, Japan
Otsuki, Yamaguchi, Japan
Railway Control Centre, Hiroshima, Japan
Shin Nagoya Station, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
Shin Osaka Station, Osaka, Japan
Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
Shizunai, Hokkaido, Japan
Sun Plaza, Shimbashi, Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo Station, Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Yorii High School, Saitama, Japan
Yubari, Hokkaido, Japan

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