Japanese filmmaker Shinji Higuchi finds beauty in bullet trains specifically so he can destroy them on screen, a creative paradox that defines his latest film, Netflix‘s “Bullet Train ...

Japanese filmmaker Shinji Higuchi finds beauty in bullet trains specifically so he can destroy them on screen, a creative paradox that defines his latest film, Netflix’s “Bullet Train ...

Directed by veteran filmmaker Shinji Higuchi and starring singer-actor Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, Bullet Train Explosion is the latest lively, highly-charged tentpole title on Netflix’s Japanese slate.

Shinji Higuchi, director of the Netflix film “Bullet Train Explosion,” poses next to the film’s poster at Netflix offices in Tokyo on Tuesday, April 22, 2025. Credit: AP/Yuri Kageyama.

After a massive (and we do mean massive) box office haul in Japan and most of Asia, Shin Ultraman director Shinji Higuchi’s follow-up to the 2016 crossover hit Shin Godzilla, has made its way to ...

Shinji Higuchi and Hideaki Anno previously co-directed 2016’s “Shin Godzilla,” which also updated a beloved Japanese franchise for modern sensibilities, ...

Shin Ultraman, the second “Shin” tokusatsu collaboration between Shinji Higuchi and Neon Genesis Evangelion creator Hideaki Anno after 2016’s Shin Godzilla, released in Japan earlier this ...

Shinji Higuchi has a little secret. If you look very, very carefully in the right ear of Ultraman, the giant robot superhero of his new film Shin Ultraman, he's hidden a switch.

TOKYO (AP) — The highspeed bullet train says Japan as much as Godzilla, sushi and Mount Fuji. And it takes center stage in Shinji Higuchi’s new film, “Bullet Train Explosion,” which ...