Teru Aoki (青木 輝) is on a train to Tokyo after a school trip. A disaster occurs which partially destroys the train and blocks a tunnel. When Teru awakes, he finds all his classmates and teachers are dead.
Cinematography
Cramped train wreck becomes suffocating nightmarescape.
Acting
Tsumabuki's deer-in-headlights terror never lets up.
Practical Effects
Gnarly tunnel sets that feel genuinely inescapable.
Director
George Iida
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director George Iida was a TV veteran; this was his only theatrical feature, and it shows in the cramped scope.
Released two years after 9/11 and during Japan's Lost Decade, the tunnel as metaphor for economic and social collapse hits different.
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