Why it is one of the best movies set on a train: The most recent adaptation of Agatha Christie’s classic whodunit and one of the more famous of her Hercule Poirot-led novels, Murder on the ...

"Bullet Train Explosion," on Netflix Thursday, harkens back to the glory days of disaster movies with a speeding train and teamwork between passengers, conductors and railway crew.

Filmmaker Shinji Higuchi reveals the inspirations behind the train drama that reached No. 2 in the streamer's global non-English films list.