Fasten you seatbelts for the read of your life - Japan`s famed Bullet Train, the Shinkansen, is speeding at 200mph from Tokyo and Morioka with four members of the criminal underworld aboard. Add to these passengers a teenage schoolboy who displays a frighteningly vicious psychopathic character and you have a recipe for confusion, humour and, ultimately, murder.
The five killers
aboard - revengeful Kimura, unlucky Nanao, evil duo Tangerine and Lemon and
young Satoshi, whose innocent child-like appearance he constantly plays on
- are all travelling with different
agendas but become embroiled with one another in unanticipated ways. Examples
are the concealments and subsequent discoveries in different locations of a
mysterious suitcase; dead bodies being propped up in train seats and toilets in
various carriages; guns, needles, knives, hand-to-hand combat, all the
fundamentals of a gritty crime thriller are played out up and down the train`s
ten carriages. Humour is added, but not exclusively in the escapades of the
unfortunate Nanao, for whom anything is bound to go wrong and the passenger who appears from time to time to aid the action. However- is gang
boss Minegishi behind all of their tasks? His son is on the train.......
Just to add to the
excitement, other assassins are present, on and off the train. What are their
agendas we wonder? Who amongst all of them will still be standing at the end of
the line???All in all, a wonderfully complicated and fast-moving, gripping
thriller.
