Bullet Train (2022) on Netflix
An unlucky assassin named Ladybug boards a bullet train to retrieve a briefcase, guided by his handler Maria. Yuichi Kimura rides the same train, hunting whoever pushed his son from a rooftop.
- Netflix3.2/5
- IMDb7.3/10547,854 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes53%
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Plot summary
On a bullet train leaving Tokyo, a freelance operative codenamed Ladybug takes a last-minute assignment, replacing a colleague named Carver, and his handler Maria guides him remotely toward a briefcase somewhere on board. His bad luck tends to kill the people around him while he survives. Lemon and Tangerine, British assassin brothers, are escorting a young man called the Son to his father, the White Death, a yakuza boss, and are to hand over the same case of cash. Yuichi Kimura rides the train hunting the person who pushed his son from a rooftop and left the boy comatose. Another assassin, the Wolf, holds Ladybug to blame over his wife's death at their wedding.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Bullet Train (2022)
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- Author Kotaro Isaka defended the casting by describing his characters as 'ethnically malleable', maintaining that his original Japanese setting and context were irrelevant as they were 'not real people, maybe they're not even Japanese'.
- Sandra Bullock joined the cast to replace Lady Gaga, who had already been attached but dropped out over a scheduling conflict with House of Gucci.
- Ryan Reynolds accepted his cameo as a thank-you to Brad Pitt for Pitt's own cameo in Deadpool 2 (2018), a film also directed by David Leitch.
- The soundtrack includes Japanese-language covers of the Bee Gees' 'Stayin' Alive' and Bonnie Tyler's 'Holding Out for a Hero,' with composer Dominic Lewis describing the score's approach as 'all vibe and no technique.'
