Trivia / The Bullet Train

• All-Star Cast: Sonny Chiba and Ken Takakura are just topping on the cake to an already star-studded cast that includes Tetsuro Tamba, Takashi Shimura, and Susumu Kurobe to name a few.
• The Cameo: Quite a few pop up, with Testuro Tamba as the Tokyo MPD police chief; Sonny Chiba's brother Jiro appears as another train driver who hooks up to the Hikari in order to transfer a few materials to defuse the bomb; Takashi Shimura has a brief cameo as JNR's president; and cult movie actress Yumi Takigawa cameos as an SAS staff member at the airport.
• Follow the Leader: Toho already released a "hostage crisis on a bullet train" movie earlier in the year, called Mainline to Terror.
  • Toei's film was released in July '75 and Toho's film came out in September '75.

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