David Inoue, executive director of the Japanese American Citizens League, criticized the casting, stating that while American actors would have been appropriate if the setting were changed to the United States, the filmmakers used the novel's Japanese setting while keeping Japanese characters in the film's background, strengthening charges of whitewashing. The Prince finds the briefcase, booby-traps it with explosives, and rigs Yuichi's gun to explode if fired.

Brad Pitt as Ladybug, an American assassin who is suffering from anxiety and considers himself unlucky.This year Japan will mark 150 years since the first Japan Rail train set off in what would come to symbolise the nation's rapid and successful industrialisation. Tangerine wakes Lemon up and they both split off to find Ladybug and frame him for the Son's murder.

Since then the sleek and speedy mode of public transport has come to typify how a country can do trains if they put enough money and effort into it. The poster is a far cry from the project’s first one, which featured nothing but a train seat (albeit with a mysterious bloodstain on it) and one of the train’s crew members, played by The Boys‘ Karen Fukuhara.A bestseller in Japan, Bullet Train is an original and propulsive thriller that fizzes with incredible energy as its complex net of double-crosses and twists unwinds up to the last station.