Panic on the Tokyo Express

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Movie
German title Panic on the Tokyo Express
Original title 新 幹線 大 爆破
Country of production Japan
original language Japanese
Publishing year 1975
length 153 (German verse 94) minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Jun'ya Sato
script Ryūnosuke Ono
Jun'ya Satō
Arei Katō
production Kanji Amao
Sunao Sakagami
music Hachirō Aoyama
camera Masahiko Iimura
cut Osamu Tanaka
occupation

Panik im Tokio-Express ( Japanese 新 幹線 大 爆破 , Shinkansen Daibakuha , dt. "Large explosion in the Shinkansen ") is a Japanese disaster film by the Tōei by Jun'ya Satō from 1975. The alternative title is Killer Train .

action

A call came in to the JNR in Tokyo late in the morning. At the other end, the blackmailer Okita calls in, demanding a ransom of several million dollars. Horror spreads among those responsible after it becomes clear that the man in the Shinkansen Hikari 109 from Tokyo to Hakata has hidden a bomb, the detonator of which will react as soon as the speed of the train slows to less than 80 km / h. To demonstrate that he meant business, the blackmailer fitted a freight train with a similar bomb, which then exploded. 1500 passengers, including a pregnant woman, are at risk, and the police, train driver Aoki and dispatcher Kuramochi do not have much time to prevent the disaster.

Remarks

The cast list of the “film made quite exciting” reads like a who's who of the Japanese film of the 1970s. Even a few small supporting roles were cast with stars. B. Etsuko Shihomi's performance only 20 seconds, she played a telephone operator.

Publications

The film was released under the title by the West German Constantin Film and with a running time of 90 minutes (original version 150 minutes) in German cinemas on June 25, 1976. In the GDR he was seen under the same title.

There are different purchase versions with different titles:

  • Panik in Tokio-Express (8mm home film, 2 parts with a total of 40 minutes running time / 1st German VHS version of VMP-Video with 94 min running time)
  • Killer Train (2nd German VHS / DVD version - like theatrical version, approx. 90 min. Running time)
  • The Bullet Train - Shinkansen Daibakuha (uncut Japanese theatrical version, only available with German subtitles)

Others

One of the Japanese cinema trailers for the film contains scenes that were not shown in the film:

  • The appearances of Etsuko Shihomi and Yumi Takigawa in the film only last a few seconds. However, since they were shown in the trailer because of their high popularity, scenes from other films were used.
  • Shinichi Chiba used other shots to keep the suspense about what role he would be starring in. In the film he plays the train driver Aoki, who wears a railway uniform throughout. In the trailer, however, he was seen in a black and white jacket and a red tie. This scene was also from another movie.

The outdoor shots that were made by the Shinkansen for this film ended up in Toei's archives and were used for the railway police television series Shinkansen Kōankan ( 新 幹線 公安 官 , dt. "Shinkansen Railway Police"), which was broadcast on TV Asahi from 1977 to 1978 , partially reused. In this series, the actors Akira Oda and Tomoo Nagai, who also played in panic on the Tokyo Express, each have a guest appearance.

Japanese National Railways declined to support the project despite the huge number of stars. They did n't want to see the Shinkansen in the context of bomb threats and explosions. Finally, an elaborate 1: 1 replica and model trains were used.

The film served as a template for the 1994 action film Speed by Jan de Bont .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Panic on the Tokyo Express. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used