Here's a high-octane Japanese thriller of killers aboard a bullet train

Isaka’s 'Bullet Train' is being made into a Hollywood flick starring Brad Pitt that is set for release next year. Photo: Handout

The confined high-speed rail adds to the claustrophobia of South Korean zombie flick Train To Busan (2016), with the cocooned passengers trying to fend off the undead.

The threat here instead comes from a motley crew of criminals who find themselves on board the same train hurtling from Tokyo to the north-east Japan city of Morioka, with the inevitable convergence of their respective nefarious missions.