The Japanese Author Behind ‘Bullet Train’ Is OK That the Film Isn’t So Japanese - The New York Times

Kotaro Isaka dreamed that his novel would get the big-screen treatment. Now it’s an action thriller starring Brad Pitt. Does the lack of major Asian stars matter?

Leitch had hoped to shoot parts of the film in Japan, but the pandemic made that impossible, so he leaned further into a fantastical vision created on an American sound stage. Seeing it, Isaka said h… [+1364 chars]

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