The Bullet Train (新幹線大爆破, Shinkansen Daibakuha, lit. "Shinkansen Explosion") is a 1975 Japanese disaster film directed by Junya Satō and starring Sonny Chiba and Ken Takakura. A Shinkansen "bullet train" is threatened with a bomb that will explode automatically if the train slows below 80 km/h unless a ransom is paid. Police race to find the bombers and to learn how to defuse the bomb.