Bullet train

Five assassins aboard a swiftly-moving bullet train find out that their missions have something in common. Five assassins aboard a swiftly-moving bullet train find out that their missions have something in common. Five assassins aboard a swiftly-moving bullet train find out that their missions have something in common.

"Bullet Train" is an action film that could easily have been an animated movie, and often looks and feels like one. The story takes place on a bullet train careening across Japan, but most of the movie was shot on green-screened sets, and the cityscapes and countrysides that the train rides through are mainly miniatures and CGI. Its characters are a touch abstract as well, and knowingly comic-bookish. All are either paid killers or otherwise violent individuals connected with the world of crime, and the majority either have grudges against one of the other characters or are the object of a grudge and trying to escape the consequences of past actions. They tend to have tragic-sentimental backstories or be purely malevolent—and inevitably, 30 years after the great Tarantino realignment of the early nineties, most of them are chatterboxes who will monologue at anyone who doesn't point a gun at their head and order them to shut up, and the tone mixes winking black comedy and poker-faced pulp. The White Death is a Russian who took over a Yakuza family. His face isn't shown until the end of the story (it's more fun for the audience to resist Googling who plays him, because his casting is one of the best surprises in the whole thing). The plot initially seems goal-driven, revolving around the comatose grandson and the metal briefcase. But as the script adds new fighters to the mix, and establishes that they're all tangentially connected, "Bullet Train" morphs into a half-assed bu...

Plot Yuichi Kimura, "The Father", boards a During the trip, The Son is killed by poisoning. Ladybug discreetly steals the briefcase, but on his way off the train, is attacked by another assassin, codenamed "The Wolf", who recognizes Ladybug from his wedding, where his wife was killed. The Wolf mistakenly believes Ladybug to be one of her killers. Ladybug confusedly fights The Wolf, who accidentally kills himself with a deflected knife throw. Yuichi finds the person who pushed Wataru, a young woman codenamed "The Prince", but she outsmarts him. She lured Yuichi to the train as part of a plan to have him kill his boss: the White Death. To ensure his cooperation, she has a henchman holding Wataru hostage in the hospital. Recognizing Lemon from a job in Suspicious of the two, Lemon shoots Yuichi, then he is about to shoot the Prince but collapses after drinking from a water bottle Ladybug had previously spiked with sleeping powder. The Prince shoots Lemon and conceals him and Yuichi in a bathroom. Ladybug encounters yet another assassin "The Hornet", who poisoned both the Wolf's wedding party and the Son with After she flees, the Elder tells Ladybug he will remain to confront the White Death, who killed his wife while taking over the Yakuza. Finding Yuichi and Lemon still alive, the four work together and prepare to face the White Death. At The White Death's remaining henchmen board and battle the assassins, while the Elder duels the White Death. The train crashes into downtow...

The California High-Speed Rail Authority is preparing to begin discussions with potential suppliers of a $200 million utility-scale system it will own and operate. It will include 552 acres of solar panels generating 44 megawatts of electricity — enough for a city of 33,000 people — and batteries to store 62 megawatt hours of power. The system must be robust enough to provide powerful electrical bursts to propel trains at up to 220 miles per through the 171-mile Central Valley segment of the railway, withstand intense heat and keep passengers moving along — even if there’s a blackout at local utilities. Work could begin by 2026 to ensure it’s ready to power trains by 2030, the target opening date for the railway’s initial segment, Margaret Cederoth, the authority’s director of planning and sustainability, told Forbes. (The timing of when connections to San Francisco and L.A. aren’t fixed owing to funding challenges.) “California is a fantastic place to do renewable energy. It's the best intensity of solar in the United States,” she said. “We already have in our right-of-way portfolio some very well-configured parcels that allow us to do renewable energy generation at the scale necessary to supply the amount of electricity we need to entirely offset our load.” Photovoltaic panels at the North Palm Springs 1 solar field in Whitewater, California. © 2021 Bloomberg Finance LP The country’s most ambitious and expensive infrastructure project, with an estimated cost of more than...

In Bullet Train, Brad Pitt stars as Ladybug, an unlucky assassin determined to do his job peacefully after one too many gigs gone off the rails. Fate, however, may have other plans, as Ladybug's latest mission puts him on a collision course with lethal adversaries from around the globe -- all with connected, yet conflicting, objectives -- on the world's fastest train. From the director of Deadpool 2, David Leitch, the end of the line is only the beginning in a wild, non-stop thrill ride through modern-day Japan. Show More • Rating: R (Pervasive Language|Brief Sexuality|Strong and Bloody Violence) • Genre: Action, Comedy • Original Language: English • Director: • Producer: • Writer: • Release Date (Theaters): Aug 5, 2022 wide • Release Date (Streaming): Dec 3, 2022 • Box Office (Gross USA): $103.1M • Runtime: 2h 6m • Distributor: Columbia Pictures • Production Co: Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE), 87North, Hill District Media, CTB Inc. • Sound Mix: Dolby Atmos • Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

Over the Shinkansen's 50-plus-year history, carrying over 10 billion passengers, there has not been a single passenger fatality or injury on board due to derailments or collisions. Starting with the The original Tokaido Shinkansen, connecting The Shinkansen network of Japan had the highest annual passenger ridership (a maximum of 353 million in 2007) of any Contents • 1 Etymology • 2 History • 2.1 Early proposals • 2.2 Construction • 2.3 Initial success • 2.4 Network expansion • 3 Technology • 3.1 Routing • 3.2 Track • 3.3 Signal system • 3.4 Electrical systems • 3.5 Trains • 3.6 Traction • 4 Lines • 4.1 Lines under construction • 4.2 Planned lines • 4.3 Cancelled line • 4.4 Proposed lines • 5 Service names • 5.1 Tōkaidō, San'yō and Kyushu Shinkansen • 5.2 Tōhoku, Hokkaido, Yamagata and Akita Shinkansen • 5.3 Jōetsu Shinkansen • 5.4 Hokuriku Shinkansen • 5.5 Nishi Kyushu Shinkansen • 6 Train types • 6.1 Passenger trains • 6.1.1 Tokaido and San'yō Shinkansen • 6.1.2 Kyushu and Nishi Kyushu Shinkansen • 6.1.3 Tohoku, Hokkaido, Joetsu, and Hokuriku Shinkansen • 6.1.4 Yamagata and Akita Shinkansen • 6.2 Experimental trains • 6.3 Maglev trains • 6.4 Maintenance vehicles • 7 Speed records • 7.1 Traditional rail • 7.2 Maglev • 8 Reliability • 8.1 Punctuality • 8.2 Safety record • 9 Effects • 9.1 Economics • 9.2 Environment • 10 Challenges • 10.1 Noise pollution • 10.2 Earthquake • 10.3 Heavy snow • 11 Ridership • 11.1 Annual • 11.2 Cumulative comparison • 12 Future • 12.1 Speed i...