44 minSeason 1 • Episode 10
LatestRiders on a commuter train get an earthquake warning on their cellphones. Cars lurch as electric sparks fly, people are thrown about and the lights go out. Train 5 passengers awake to find that they are no longer in a tunnel, and overgrown brush can be seen through the windows. People slide open the doors and find that the train tracks end suddenly ahead and behind the car. People's reactions to losing the modern world vary from confusion to alarm to indifference. Where or when are they? Can they survive in this wilderness?
Direction
Claustrophobic train chaos bleeding into vast wilderness dread.
Production
Practical train set sells the disorientation hard.
Writing
Character factions form faster than you can say 'drama'.
Yuki Yamada
Naoya Kayashima
Eiji Akaso
Yuto Shirahama
Moka Kamishiraishi
Sae Hatano
Kai Inowaki
Shodai Kato
Kotone Furukawa
Rena Watabe
Joichiro Fujiwara
Daichi Yonezawa
Wataru Hyuga
Kazuma Eguchi
Rin Kataoka
Koharu Sato
Tetta Sugimoto
Yaichi Tanaka
Yasuko Matsuyuki
Kayoko Terasaki
Ayaka Onishi
Hiroko Tachibana
Shuto Miyazaki
Shugo Akashi
Hideaki Murata
Hajime Komori
Sayaka Yamaguchi
Sumire Mishima
Yūto Ikeda
Tatsuya Kayashima
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Taps into post-2011 Japanese anxieties around infrastructure collapse and collective disaster response.
The train car was built as a practical set that could be physically tilted 15 degrees for earthquake scenes.
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