Main Line to Terror
Akiyama is an intern, disgusted with the noise pollution caused by the bullet trains and the heart attacks that noise has been causing in older hospital patients, plots to disrupt and, in ten days, destroy a unit of the operation. He warns the Japan National Railway, that, if nothing is done to reduce the noise, he will derail a bullet train. Takigawa is the police detective sent to stop him.
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📋 Film Details
| Original Title | 動脈列島 |
| Year | 1975 |
| Country | Japan |
| Genre | Drama, Thriller |
| Director | Yasuzō Masumura |
| Runtime | 121 min. |
| Rating | TMDB: 6.0/10 (16 votes) |
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Director Satoshi Yamamoto constructs a tense thriller that relies on a social protest against progress blind to human cost. The film explores moral ambiguity, where the terrorist is not a villain but a desperate idealist.
What lingers after the final frame is the unsettling question of justified extremism. The cat-and-mouse game becomes a clash of convictions rather than mere force. — MovieFinder Editorial
Director: Yasuzō Masumura
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Watch alone at night, with no distractions, to feel the full weight of the impending countdown.
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