It was directed by veteran director Shinji Higucci and starring the singer and actor Tsuushi Kosanagi, The explosion of the lead train It is the latest vibrant Tentpole title, on the Japanese Netflix list. Higucci made some of the largest films in Japan, including Shin Ghadzellaand Shin ultraman and Titan attack.
The explosion of the lead train “Shinkansen” (a bullet train) follows to Tokyo, which is soon exposed to the threat of the bomb. The bombs on the train will explode if the train slows down less than 100 km per hour, leaving the passengers and its crew in danger. The film is a restart of the original 1975 movie BulletThat inspired the popular Hollywood speed – With the latter, starring Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper and Sandra Bullock.
In the midst of the highly full octane series, Higuchi also offers many moral questions about the dignity and value of life.
“When we make a movie, we can do many things,” says Higucci for the deadline. “We are like God – we can control the life and fate of the characters. We can make them die, we can make them live. Although these characters may not be already in real life, and they have their fate in our hands, we take responsibility for making these decisions.”
These lines of philosophical interrogation come from a deep personal place for Higucci, who has gone through a turbulent time during adolescence.
“I think a lot about how these people go through the movie and learn to survive at the end of the day. Because when I was a teenager, I hated this world,” says Higucci. “But I was interested in living in the foreground, just as I was looking at the future. Perhaps although the situation may be my worst point, I thought about how I grew up in a few years and life may be better.”
After high school, Higuchi ended in public service, with post -Japan services, but he knew deeply that his invitation was in the creative world.
“In my school, they did not really allow you to walk in a creative path. When I looked at the graduates and graduates, there was this graphic scheme, and no one was going to creative work. Everyone will go to university.” I had a public service test, but I felt that my future was not there. This was the first time I asked myself, “What I want to do? The answer was, mainly, to enter the films.”
He grew up, Higucci was deeply inspired by Ultraman and Ghadzella The creator Eiji Tsuburaya, as well as George Lucas and Stephen Spielberg.
Read Jaw While he was in his twenties, Higucci was inspiring and wanted to do the same.
“I have read the news and it was very surprising that it is in America, you can make a movie in the twenties of life,” he added. “So when I was in my twenties, I was completely conceited, somehow. American films of the seventies still have a great impact on me.”
Higucci says he wants to make it The explosion of the lead train Nearly 20 years ago. Besides Kusanagi, the movie also starred in Kanata Hosoda, Non, Jun Kaname and Machiko Ono.
Kosanagi in The explosion of the lead train It took the former SMAP member, one of the most popular boys in Japan since the late eighties to the early first decade of the twentieth century – nearly 20 years, partly due to issues with the previous administration agency in Higucci. Only when Netflix arrived at the Japanese content scene, it has become a real possibility for Higucci.
“When you make a movie in Japan, there are restrictions and rules for you to follow,” says Higucci. “After Tsuiushi left the Old Agency Management Company, we were able to obtain it, because his old administration was very strong and had no much influencing the entertainment industry. Tsuiushi's rebellion against the head of the entertainment company and left the company in good terms. What happened is that many production companies in Japan may be afraid of throwing its boss.
“Those who could rent and teach him were only independent films, which had a lot of freedom and good vitality,” he added. Then came the Netflix and its comparison with the TV stations and the cinema industry that was in Japan forever, Netflix managed to do something they could not do. Netflix was able to jump on that big political game that we had here in entertainment. So although we were not able to throw it in the Big Budget movie because Netflix.
Looking at the future, Higuchi wants to focus on making movies based on the original scenario, but he admits that it is not easy to obtain such projects, compared to the IP air conditioning that the audience already knows.
“What he is very facing in making movies here in Japan is not only funding and production companies, but also the fans, who want something reassuring, something they know will be good,” says Higucci. “I really want to create an original story, but frankly, many of the things I want to make will be a high budget. You need to persuade people who have money that deserves this money and investment, and I haven't been able to do so yet.”
“I just hope that there will be an environment and an environmental system – or even if that person becomes myself – would enable me to make this dream movie, because there is only a handful of creators, and perhaps five, who are able to do this in Japan and stay honest with their creative vision.”
Higucci notes that he noticed that the writers who move from the theatrical scene in Japan, to the film industry, are often able to attract money from investors to large budget movies.
“The writers who come from theater to movies, when they write the text, make the actors really shine,” he added. “When you ask them,” What is the story? “They always talk about the character instead of the story. The characters are usually the main impression and fast food of these films – this may be the call.”
