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leosdooley · 2 years

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COULD YOU NOT HAVE STAYED INSTEAD?: LEMON AND TANGERINE

part 1 // part 2 // part 3 // part 4

kōtarō isaka, bullet train // bullet train (2022) // @middleschoolpunkphase // devin kelly, my mother, the day she knows the ones who died in the shooting // jamie anderson

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khuantru · 2 years

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This movie is so damn good, ‘Bullet Train’

loved the cameo appearances, wonder if they will consider doing an anime show of this about the hired killers.

bullet train based on Kōtarō Isaka's novel 'Maria Beetle'

#Bullet Train #Kōtarō Isaka #Maria Beetle

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rickchung · 2 years

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Bullet Train (dir. David Leitch).

[It] flirts with being a more cleverly laid out labyrinth of a crime drama before settling on another intentionally derivative revenge plot full of offbeat characters in order to mine its live-action cartoon sense of family vengeance. It’s a fun and stylish trip filled with amusing but familiar reversals. However, the excessive amount of comically violent action and high body count often make for a relentless experience interrupted by moments of wild physical comedy.

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it-happened-once-in-a-meme · 2 years

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🚆Bullet Train Review (spoilerfree) 🚄🏃‍♂️ [I have to watch how I place my emojis, the person would have almost run into the train 😬😅]

This week I watched Bullet Train in the cinema. We watched it in 2D, 3D could have been interesting but 4D would have been too much because the film is two hours long and I don't want to be punched for that long 😆.

Here are some of my thoughts and recommendations:

Before I get into it, here are some things that might be important to contexualize my review:

• I haven't read the book (but after the film I'm a bit interested in it)

• I wasn't a particular fan of anyone who was involved in this film (after it I admire some of them though)

I recommend it to everyone who:

• can watch something with bloody violence (still realistically, not with more blood than a person has) & poison (throwing up blood, not shown for too long) and still enjoy a film

• likes action films 🤜with a bit of humour (the action was very good and some scenes were really funny but I wouldn't call it a comedy)

• likes closed-spaced films. The title already gives it away: In this one the main plot is situated in a train, a bit similarly to The Commuter (if you liked this film, you'll love Bullet Train) 🚄. Don't worry if you fear that only one place might be boring: it isn't, not visually either.

• likes plottwists (one of the most complex and best plottwists in my opinion)

• isn't too tired when watching the movie. You do have to remember some things to understand everything but it's still fun without knowing everything all the time. I recommend not being too tired so that you can fully enjoy the plottwist, but it isn't a confusing film. There are also some scenes where you might have to look at the subtitles (Japanese and Russian). They are easy to follow though.

• likes Brad Pitt. I personally don't care about him but I still enjoyed him in this a lot and I'm interested in watching other films of his.

• wants to see Joey King's acting besides The Kissing Booth (I was positively surprised)

• thinks that every film starring Logan Lerman is bad (yes, to the people who watched it, he actually played the son, I didn't notice either. Or did anyone notice it?🤔)

Overall this film was a breath of fresh air for me and there were lots of interesting details. 💗

I can see myself watching it again after some time.

To those who have seen the film: What do you think about it?

And to the readers of the book: Would you recommend it after already having watched the adaption?

Have a lovely day/night/different type of time for those in space everyone and if you watch the film, have fun doing so!❣️

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gonzabasta · 1 year

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#libro #recensione #giallo #letteratura giapponese #kōtarō isaka

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thenerdsofcolor · 2 years

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'Bullet Train' is Able to Find Hilarity in the Chaos

NOC Review: #BulletTrain is Able to Find Hilarity in the Chaos

If there is anything that director David Leitch is good at, it’s that he is brilliant at finding the hilarity in the chaos. In his new film Bullet Train, based on the popular Japanese novel Maria Beetle by Kōtarō Isaka, Brad Pitt plays Ladybug, an “unlucky” assassin who is assigned to steal a briefcase from other assassins while on a speeding bullet train in Japan. (more…)

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#Aaron Taylor-Johnson #Andrew Koji #Bad Bunny #Brad Pitt #Brian Tyree Henry #Bullet Train #David Leitch #Hiroyuki Sanada #Japan #Japanese #Kōtarō Isaka #Movie Review #NOC Review #Reviews #Sony Pictures

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haveyoureadthispoll · 4 months

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Nanao, nicknamed Lady Bird—the self-proclaimed “unluckiest assassin in the world”—boards a bullet train from Tokyo to Morioka with one simple task: grab a suitcase and get off at the next stop. Unbeknownst to him, the deadly duo Tangerine and Lemon are also after the very same suitcase—and they are not the only dangerous passengers onboard. Satoshi, “the Prince,” with the looks of an innocent schoolboy and the mind of a viciously cunning psychopath, is also in the mix and has history with some of the others. Risk fuels him as does a good philosophical debate . . . like, is killing really wrong? Chasing the Prince is another assassin with a score to settle for the time the Prince casually pushed a young boy off of a roof, leaving him comatose. When the five assassins discover they are all on the same train, they realize their missions are not as unrelated as they first appear.

#polls #book: bullet train #author: kōtarō isaka #genre: thriller #genre: crime #year: 2010s

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dogrotpdf · 1 year

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Prompt maybe like mourning someone who’s still alive?

COULD YOU NOT HAVE STAYED INSTEAD

Richard Siken / Yves Olade / Octavio Paz / Stray Kids / W.S. Merwin / Kōtarō Isaka

#web weaving

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italeean · 7 months

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*quietly opening the door*

Hi... I'm back 😅 I swear, this month flew by without me realizing! Anyway, tomorrow I'll post the next match-up for the event and I'll try to go back to posting regularly.

For my life updates, I'll put them under the cut ^_^✨️

First, I celebrated my birthday with another group of friends. I took them to the movies to watch Oppenheimer and they gave me three books. Rashōmon and Other Tales by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Ghost Tower by Ranpo Edogawa and Bullet Train by Kōtarō Isaka. My mom and dad also bought me 25 small books about Japan's history, culture and traditions 😸😻

Then I had a sleepover with my sister and we exchanged our birthday gifts, then we went to the fair for the Sea Festival and watched the fireworks from the harbor ✨️

Then, on September 5th, I got the best news of my whole life. I GOT INTO MED UNIVERSITYYY 🥹😭 At first, I had gotten accepted in another town, but after a couple of updates of the ranking, I got accepted into my hometown, which was my 1st city of choice!! After 2 years of sacrifices, I achieved my dream... classes start on October 2nd, and I still gotta understand that it's all true 🥹😅

Then I also hung out with my friend groups, went to a few parties, did all the paperwork to enrol into med university, bought a new university bag, etc... and before I knew it, it was September 29th 😅

So yeah... this is a short resume of what happened hehe 🙃 If you actually read all of this, you're getting a kiss on the forehead ❤️

Mwah~

A domani 💚🤍❤️ (See you tomorrow)

#parliamo un po' (let's talk a bit)#coming soon

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babygirltangerine · 7 months

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Tangerine is one of the two deuteragonists (along with Lemon) of the 2022 action comedy film Bullet Train, based on Kōtarō Isaka's 2010 dark comedic thriller novel Maria Beetle.

He and his brother Lemon are a famous assassin duo called The Twins. By the time of the film, Tangerine and Lemon are hired by the White Death to escort his son and his briefcase to him on a bullet train.

He was portrayed by Aaron Taylor-Johnson, who also played William Rollins in Chatroom, Quicksilver in Avengers: Age of Ultron and Ray Marcus in Nocturnal Animals. As a child, he was portrayed by Miles Marz.

History

In the past, Tangerine and his brother Lemon completed a job in Bolivia and kill an entire camp of guerillas. Unbeknownst to them, the guerillas were men of the White Death, causing him to travel to Bolivia and leave his wife's side. After the wife is murdered in an assassination attempt, the White Death hires Lemon and Tangerine for a mission on a bullet train in the hopes that they are killed by other assassins he hired.

Lemon and Tangerine are first seen on board of the bullet train in a compartment with the White Death's son. They banter for a short while until getting a call from one of the White Death's goons telling them to make sure the briefcase is still in their possession. Lemon tells Tangerine that he safely stashed the briefcase but upon checking the place where it should be, they realise it has been stolen. When they return to their seats the White Death's son has been poisoned and killed by an assassin named The Hornet.

Soon after they arrive at a train station, where goons sent by the White Death are waiting. Tangerine tells them that everything is under control outside, while Lemon puppeteers the son's corpse inside the train. The goons believe them and Tangerine returns inside.

After that the pair comes up with a plan to retrieve the briefcase from the thief. Tangerine finds another assassin called Ladybug on the train. He realizes that Ladybug stole the briefcase and chases him down the train. The chase ends, however, when Ladybug pays another passenger to wear his hat and glasses and uses firecrackers in a train car to distract Tangerine. Upon returning to his original seat, Tangerine finds an unconscious Lemon, who has been knocked out by Ladybug and wakes him up. They both come up with a new plan to catch Ladybug and head off into different directions.

After tracking Lemon's phone that Ladybug stole Tangerine finds his thief hiding inside a toilet. They both get into a fight across the train that ends with Tangerine being about stab Ladybug in the eyes with chopsticks. Their fight is interrupted by another call from one of the White Death's goons. He demands that both Tangerine and Lemon are present in the meeting at the next train station. Ladybug offers to step in for Lemon as they don't know what he looks like and Tangerine accepts. Ladybug wants to get the briefcase for the meeting but realizes it has been stolen by the Prince and Kimura.

They decide to take a fake briefcase and the meeting goes well until Ladybug accidentally opens it and reveals the clothes inside. They escape back to the train and try to come up with back-up plan until Ladybug pushes Tangerine out the train at the next station just as the doors are about to close. Tangerine jumps back onto the train and breaks through a window to get back inside.

Not long after Tangerine finds the unconscious body of Lemon, who he assumes is dead due to the shots in his chest, inflicted by The Prince. He gets a call from the White Death, who announces that he's going to kill everyone on the train to which a depressed Tangerine expressses indifference. He searches the train for the alleged killer and runs into Prince, who attempts to convince him that Ladybug killed Lemon. Tangerine sees through her deception due to finding train stickers that Lemon stuck on her. Before Tangerine can shoot the Prince, Ladybug enters and the Prince pretends that she is an innocent girl that Tangerine is attacking, and Ladybug fights Tangerine to defend her. In their fight, Tangerine accidentally shoots himself in the throat and bleeds to death on the floor. His corpse likely remained in the wagons and was presumably damaged when the bullet train gets wrecked at the end.

Trivia

Unintentionally, Aaron-Taylor Johnson's performance as Tangerine was decisive in his casting as Kraven the Hunter in his upcoming eponymous film, as the Sony Pictures executives quickly cast him in that role due to being "blown away" by early Bullet Train footage of him as Tangerine.

Aaron-Taylor Johnson was cast as Tangerine due to David Leitch's desire to work with him. Leitch had previously offered Johnson a role in Deadpool 2, but he declined the unknown role.

The fruit truck Lemon uses towards the end of the film to run over the Prince is one filled of tangerines. This was evidently done as a reference to Tangerine, symbolizing that even from beyond the grave, he still assisted his brother in carrying out a pivotal assassination.

Tangerine's actor: Aaron Taylor Johnson had starred in the Monsterverse along with Lemon's actor: Brian Tyree Henry.

#negativity in the tag? spam with tangerine villains wiki text #seriously seriously seriously. being upset at a microfandom for a lack of diversity is insane especially when this nitpicking is coming from #people who dont even participate #the hypocrisy stinks. but keep making demands while you do nothing to make this a better environment for yourself #it just makes me want to post about tangerine more. sorry you hate fun for real #i'm going to start blocking #as i recommend everyone else who's tired of a certain type of content should do as well #bullet train #tangerine

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leosdooley · 2 years

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THEY WERE ALWAYS LEAVING: LEMON AND TANGERINE

part 1 // part 2 // part 3 // part 4

jonathan harnisch, freak // bullet train (2022) // emily brontë, wuthering heights // matt maltese, as the world caves in // antigonick, trans. anne carson // plainwater: essays and poetry, anne carson // alejandra pizarnik // kōtarō isaka, bullet train // lili st. crow, jealousy

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legends-of-apex · 2 years

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‘Bullet Train' character info from the book - Masterlist

Thank you all so much for requesting this! It’s not an exhaustive list of character attributes, just what I can remember after reading the book awhile back! This is based on the English translation of the 2010 novel by Isaka Kōtarō titled 'Maria Beetle' or マリアビートル in Japanese or 'Bullet Train' in the English version

I thought this might be useful for those looking for extra information when writing fics or just those curious about what the characters were like in the novel

I have split the characters into groups of two per post with more to follow soon!

Lemon and Tangerine [click here]

Ladybug and Maria (to be added)

Yuichi Kimura and Shigeru Kimura (to be added)

Prince and The White Death (to be added)

Hornet and The Wolf (To be added)

#bullet train movie #bullet train #bullet train spoilers #bullet train book comparisons #k.exe #masterlist #not a fic

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cheshirelibrary · 1 year

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6 Vengeful Books Like John Wick

[via Book Riot]

Hollywood’s favorite revenge franchise, John Wick, continues with John Wick: Chapter 4 this month. Full of over-the-top violence, great fight choreography, and he’s-so-wholesome-we-don’t-deserve-him Keanu Reaves, this franchise is huge. But when the credits roll, what if you want more vengeful tales? Why, there are books like John Wick, of course.

Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao

Never Saw Me Coming by Vera Kurian

The Female of the Species by Mindy McGinnis

Three Assassins by Kōtarō Isaka

When the Reckoning Comes by Latanya McQueen

Orphan X by Gregg Hurwitz

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Click through to see more titles.

#cheshire library #if you like #john wick #readalikes #revenge fiction

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girlfriendsofthegalaxy · 1 year

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tuesday again 1/31/23

month started on a sunday, ended on a tuesday, very satisfying

listening

Toxic Las Vegas (Jamieson Shaw Remix). this has been on my "silly little walk for my silly little mental health" playlist for three weeks so it's time for its place in the tuesdaypost. part of the appeal is that it's two songs i already like but this remix does something where i go "whoa is that the james bond chord" every time even though it is NOT.

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reading

Bullet Train, a black humor thriller set on a train full of asssassins by Kōtarō Isaka. i have been having... mmmmmmmm. a time. let us say. and i have been clinging to things that i have lost my mind about (mostly cowboys) in order to get through the agonies. so it is weird, now that i am branching out a bit more bc things are on a slightly different tack, to be like "yeah i liked this a normal amount and i agree with the 3.8 goodreads average. i will not remember this in three months." npr said basically: fun little genre piece with no real depth! i don't completely agree with this, bc the book is not action-scene focused! the very few fights are short, blunt, quick affairs. there's a lot of focus on personal ethics and legacies, and a great deal of terror derived from random chance. but yeah it's not really a literary novel.

this was a fast, fun read. a rare example where i liked the adaptation (the recent movie which is a VERY loose adaptation) much more than the original work.

i try not to be picky about sentence structure or work choice in a translated work, bc translation is a tricky business at best, but there were some funky choices here and there that did throw me out of my groove. it's written in present tense, which is fine, but i cannot remember the last time i read a professionally published non-romance book written in present tense. i described the movies as "really wants you to know it took AP English", and the book is similar in an interesting way-- book!tangerine is constantly quoting English literary-canon novels.

the book (and movie) have a very dry sense of humor that clicked with me. "it's not clear why the man is naming fruits". at LEAST two sensible chuckles.

the biggest book/movie divergence is with the character of the Prince: a fourteen-year-old serial killer, who we spend a great deal of the book with, who asks nearly every grownup on this train "why is it bad to kill people?". a rare book in which i actively wanted a child to die. i think this character is much improved in the movie, since the character is both aged up (a young teen boy in the book, an older teen girl in the movie), and given clearer ties to the rest of the cast. however, this adaptational choice does lose almost all of the terror of the random chance the book makes you sit with. in the movie, the prince has a motive. in the book, that kid just ain't right.

had a fun time but not enough of a fun time that i will be seeking out the other novels in the series on purpose. perhaps if i come across physical copies cheap it will ping my memory and i'll grab them, which is how i acquire a lot of my physical books. this feels like im damning with faint phrase, but i did have a fun time reading this! it's just that my brain is a sieve and lately anything that doesn't completely possess me is immediately forgotten.

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watching

fallow week bc i have been #gaming. i need to literally put on my to-do list "rewatch The Big Sleep for febslash feb research" maybe that'll get me to actually do it. im going to take this opportunity to complain about how much fucking work it is to write smut. not even the technical stuff bc i do like to write smut that's threesomes where everyone is the same gender and has the same color hair. the hard part is going "okay what's sexy" and then like storyboarding out the sequence of events to make sure everyone's having fun and it CONSISTENTLY stays sexy the whole time. i have never had irl sex with a narrative throughline. difficult difficult lemon difficult

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playing

still running around in wolfenstein: the new order making this big beefy boy do jumps and slides. went to the moon. came back from the moon. hit a very fun bug as i try to fight my way out of the london nautica where i crash landed, bc i died, the level spat me out at the last checkpoint, and there were no health or ammo or armor pickups anywhere. just what i could scavenge off the fallen. very unpleasant to fight through a room with 20 health but i did do one whole room before realizing this was a bug. i would not like to play the entire game like this. very stressful. the big boss at the end of the level was also extremely stressful.

but let's talk about the moon, the moon in the fucking sky. how was the moon? was the moon fun? no it was full of nazis. it was also jammed full of sixties computer banks tho. many instruments and dials as well.

as i write this on sunday night i am going to attempt Again to finish the second to last chapter in this game. i am So Close to finishing this game in under 20 hours [ed note, monday night: lmao still have not finished this game]. look at some more computer banks there aren't enough pictures to break up this post.

not sure if this is a side effect of the next-location action movie disease, but wolfenstein is very interested in how areas link together. lots of temporary facilities that have grown ad-hoc roots, lots of trains planes and automobiles. we drive a lot of trucks. we’re in helicopters and subs and moon rockets. we blow up a bridge and scramble through several trains, blowing one of them up. we fuck on a train also can't forget that cutscene. we live in the sewers. we scuttle around in vents. we are in some very far-flung locations but they all look the fucking same bc they are encased in brutalist concrete. i'm sure this is bc it's fun to have a gun battle on a train and on the fucking moon and bc like u only have so many guys actually modelling things for your levels.

this is a very half-baked observation bc i think i am beginning to get a migraine (as i finish writng this on monday night) but let's get this out of the way first: all buildings are political. something something things invented and built for war never actually go away, something something transportation infrastructure to ease conquest continues to keep the colonies within easy reach of the imperial core, wartime infrastructure like highways and bridges as a tool of empire, fascism is a constant state of war which in this game is partly represented by constant shooting and also constant building. something something the unsustainability of not only constant building things but constant growth. something something long linked history of fascist architects who love brutalism. this video game has great visual design and visual shorthands is what im trying to get at. i think.

the london nautica museum/labs/spaceport is a big gun. this is not a subtle game.

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making

here's a peek behind the curtain: i talk about cooking when i don't have anything else to report on. but i genuinely did not have anything else going on this weekend bc this took all my fucking literal and metaphorical spoons. this represents like three weeks worth of soup lunch (the red lentil previously discussed on this series) plus two quiches.

why so many quiches lately? i bought two dozen eggs before christmas and thought i would do more baking than i did, which was zero. tried this dal palak recipe, majorly fucked up the proportions of the spinach bc i cannot read the back of a package, and by the time i corrected my mistake i had a fuck of a lot of the spinach/onion/spices. unfortunately i fucking hate the texture of rice plus lentils plus this mixture all together, but felt bad about wasting so much food, so the lentils went into the soup (which i needed to make more of anyway) the spinach mixture went into some quiche (bc i needed to use up those eggs anyway) and uhhh idk what will happen with the rice yet. maybe fried rice to finish off the last three eggs in the carton. this entire debacle used all my spoons for the weekend.

there's also a pork shoulder defrosting (and after that marinating[from last summer's Father's Day Meat Sale i also wish i was making this up]) but that's not very photogenic. i desperately need freezer space and it's been a fucking minute since i had some meat.

#tuesday again #tuesday again no problem

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lethargicwizard · 9 months

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So I watched "Bullet Train" (A while ago but that's not important)

Since it's been a while since the movie came out I feel pretty safe but never the less Spoilers!

If I had to describe "Bullet Train" I'd call it Hollywood's greatest attempt at emulating less conventional methods of storytelling. With the original text being written by Kōtarō Isaka as a novel (and that end, I have no idea what liberties were taken with its production, and adaptation compared to the original story) and because of that fact it may be cringe to say that on my first viewing, I thought the film felt like something that would do well as a single season 12 episode cult classic anime from the mid-nineties to early two-thousands. Everything from the film's setting to the characters screams that sort of slightly absurdist charm that you'd usually see from that era of anime and manga. A collection of assassins board a bullet train in Japan for a myriad of different yet interconnected reasons strung along by a well-foreshadowed central antagonist and a mysterious yet charismatic dark horse, all taking place in a black humor thriller.

Yuichi Kimura is a father out for the blood of the person that put his son on life support struggling with his position as a father demands of him. Not knowing that his decision had left him as a pawn in a dangerous game he does not completely understand.

Ladybug (which is what I will forever refer to this character archetype as) is a charismatic if oafish thief who seems to live in a state of perpetual bad luck however never fatally succumbing to it. returns to work after a stent away from attempting to reevaluate his choices and steer himself away from some of the more unsavory aspects of his profession and more often than not failing miserably at it.

Lemon/Tangerine, a dynamic duo of hitmen who share a familial bond that goes deeper than blood. The former of the two possessing a humorous yet undeniably advantageous character quirk iconic of the film. While the latter becomes an instant fan favorite due to his relatable yet enviable personality. Both of which serve as the poster children for the film.

The Wolf, a self-made legend of the Mexican cartel who shot up the ranks of his organization with his charisma, intellect, and brutality finds himself in Japan to find the murderer of not only his beloved but his partners in crime. An impressive back story for someone who dies within ten minutes of being introduced.

Hiroyuki Sanada, a disgraced former yakuza and the father of one of the other characters also comes to find the would be assassin of his grandson only to be presented the chance to settle a grudge thats haunted him for the better part of his life.

Last but not least The Prince, the dark horse of the film whose motivations and origins tantalize the viewers the entire runtime. The character you love to hate and a secondary antagonist who far outshines the main one. My hat goes off to Joey King for her performance from this absolute menace The Prince is one of my favorite aspects of the film, the fact that the vast majority of situations she's faced with go her way which helps her be more hatable yet interesting as a character. I'm especially fond of her aesthetic as a character she's not a traditional fem fatal but she still leverages her femininity to achieve her goals falling into that gap-moe of having this adolescent schoolgirl design yet being this conniving machiavellian character.

Now after hearing that line up tell me this doesn't sound like an instant cult hit of a dark comedy. Overall I'm quite fond of the film and if you haven't seen it and didn't heed my warning at the top please watch it its quite the treat. for those who have watched the film and just wanted to read this for yucks, I suggest you read the source material Kōtarō Isaka's Maria Beetle if you can find it.

#bullet train #tangerine bullet train #lemon bullet train #maria beetle #ladybug bullet train

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ohfersherbahd · 1 year

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🐞 If you haven't watched this movie, you're doing a disservice to yourself. I liked it so much that I wanted to read the original book; Maria Beetle マリアビートル by Kōtarō Isaka. I'm excited to finally read this! Also, thanks Jason for gifting it to me ☺️☺️ 🐞 I also have to pick up "Three Assassins" since it was just translated to English!

#bullet train #bullet train movie #maria beetle #novel #japanese author #japanese books #black humour #thriller novel #kotaro isaka #マリアビートル #personal #me #myphoto #readingtime #bookclub #books #booklover

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