Netflix Japan announced on Tuesday that Shin Godzilla co-director Shinji Higuchi's next project is a remake of the 1975 Japanese action thriller Shinkansen Daibakuha. (The 1975 film's foreign titles include The Bullet Train and Super Express 109, while the remake uses the English translation Bullet Train Explosion.) Higuchi serves as director for the 2025 release .
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Former SMAP member Tsuyoshi Kusanagi (Mutafukaz, Hime-chan's Ribbon) will star in the film.
The original film involved a group planting bombs on a Japanese bullet train in an attempt to extort money from the government.
Higuchi was an original member of the Gainax animation studio, and worked on storyboards and scripts on a large number of its notable projects, including Gunbuster, Otaku no Video and Neon Genesis Evangelion . In addition to co-directing Shin Godzilla with Gainax founding member Hideaki Anno, he also directed live-action films from Hajime Isayama's Attack on Titan manga and again collaborated with Anno on Shin Ultraman, where he directed while Anno wrote the script. He is the main director of the original anime series Dragon Pilot: Hisone and Masotan, written by Mari Okada (Maquia, maboroshi, Fureru.).
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Shin Godzilla continues TOHO's film franchise after a 12-year absence following 2004's Godzilla: Final Wars. The film grossed 8.2 billion yen (US$75.6 million) at the box office in Japan after opening in Japan in July 2016. Funimation released the film in theaters in North America in October 2016.
The film won awards at the 56th Japan Science Fiction Convention's 48th Seiun Awards (Nihon SF Taikai) in July 2017 and the Grand Prize in the Entertainment Division of the Media Arts Festival Awards 20th Japan Academy Awards in March 2017. The film also won seven awards at the 40th annual Japan Academy Awards in March, including Film of the Year and Director of the Year. The film won the Fujimoto Award in April 2017.
Source: Netflix Japan YouTube channel
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