Top Billed Cast

Ken Takakura
Tetsuo Okita
Sonny Chiba
Aoki
Kei Yamamoto
Masaru Koga
Eiji Gō
Shinji Fujio
Akira Oda
Hiroshi Ôshiro
Raita Ryu
Kikuchi
Masayo Utsunomiya
Yasuko
Ken Utsui
Kuramochi
Yumiko Fujita
Akiyama
Yumi Takigawa
SAS Staff
Etsuko Shihomi
Telephone Operator
Fumio Watanabe
Miyashita
Toyoto Fukuda
Tashiro
Hiroko Fuji
Female Teacher
Junko Matsudaira
Cashier
Tetsuro Tamba
Sunaga
Takashi Shimura
JNR President
Kunie Tanaka
Koga's Brother
Saburo Date
Businessman's Man
Yutaka Hayashi
Naka-yan
Yoshibumi Tajima
Sasaki
Mizuho Suzuki
Hanamura
Koreharu Hisatomi
Hirota
Yoshirō Aoki
Senda
Jirô Chiba
Construction Vehicle Officer
Kiyoto Harada
Miyake
Akira Hamada
Nagata
Keisuke Nakai
Tetsu-chan
Kiyoshi Yamamoto
Takazawa
Sen Yano
Minami
Hiroshi Kondō
Matsubara
Hiroshi Tanaka
Tsutsumi
Hirohisa Nakata
Tokyo Working Office Clerk-in-charge
Akio Yokoyama
Superintendent
Yoshitaro Asawaka
Passenger B
Shun Ueda
Shûichi Hirao
Ken'ichi Matsuno
Komiya
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 Shoji
Passenger A
Osamu Saka
Kakuya Saeki
Noguchi
Seigo Fukuoka
Sugimura
Koichi Iwaki
Akira Tôgô
Nenji Kobayashi
Morimoto
Goro Kataoka
Sawara
Rikinaga Nakano
Osaka Businessman
Takashi Hio
Riot Policeman
Kōji Fujiyama
Hiro-oka
So Takizawa
Kawamura
Seiya Satō
Passenger C
Shinji Nakahara
Kôan Ikka Chô
Yusuke Mori
Hata
Kazuo Sato
Ono
Hachiro 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
Ryō Suga
Man
Isamu Matsuzawa
Shôji Yamamoto
Midori Yamamoto
Female Customer
Akira Kuji
Fireman
Gōzō Sōma
Detective C
Koichi Yamada
Passenger E
Osamu Kimura
Correspondent A
Chikara Gonoue
Detective A
Chū Takatsuki
Hamamatsu Station Staff
Haruki Jo
Cook B
Takeshige Hatanaka
Isamu Hamada
Teruo Shimizu
Substation Staff
Tatsuya Kameyama
Policeman
Sakae Yamaura
Cook A
Shinzo Tanabe
Claustrophobic Man
Takuji Aoki
Passenger D
Jirō Sagawa
Fumiaki Nakajô
Passenger F
Yasuto Sugawara
Ken-ichi
Yukiteru Akiyama
Masayuki Kawaguchi
Hisako Oka
Keiko Itō
Ryozo Mihara
Kengo Miyaji
Yoshitaka Nagaoka
Young Man
Shōhachi Uchikoshi
Stationmaster Shimura
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
Akira Yamanouchi
Cabinet Chief Secretary
Tomo'o Nagai
Bullet Train Overseas HQ Chief
Kin'ya Kitaôji
Tamio Kawachi
Satô
Dennis Falt
Train Passenger

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Written by giant13 on Sun Jan 16 2022

In the early 70s, disaster movies started gaining popularity with the likes of Airport (1970), The Poseidon Adventure (1972), The Towering Inferno (1974), and Earthquake (1974). These movies killed it at the domestic and international box offices. Toei, one of the Big Four Japanese film studios at the time, noticed and wanted to take advantage of the trend. Japan’s famous bullet train system’s first two rail lines, Tokaido and San'yō, were opened in 1964 and 1972, respectively. The mode of travel was, to that point, synonymous with Nippon, so the Toei execs wanted to...