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Hayabusa 60 (5060B) is an E5 Series Shinkansen bound from Shin-Aomori to Tokyo, under the supervision of first-line manager Kazuya Takaichi (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi). Shinkansen opened between Tokyo and Osa…
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Hayabusa 60 (5060B) is an E5 Series Shinkansen bound from Shin-Aomori to Tokyo, under the supervision of first-line manager Kazuya Takaichi (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi). Shinkansen opened between Tokyo and Osaka in 1964 and was the fastest train in the world and was called the "dream super express". The E5 series reaches a top speed of 320 KMPH. It connects Tokyo to Hokuto in 4 hours. On board the train are a class of high school students, who also visited the Shinkansen maintenance depot as part of their field trip supervised by teacher Sakura Ichikawa (Suzuka Ohgo). Fuji is the new assistant train manager. At the control room, Chiba is the head of train dispatch and Nagano is the Morioka transport dispatcher. Shortly after the train's departure, an anonymous caller contacts the JR East headquarters in Tokyo, saying they have planted a bomb on the train that will explode if it slows down below 100 km/h. Shinnosuke Yoshimura (Keisuke Hoashi) is the general manager of JR East HQ. After the bomber proves their claim with the destruction of freight train 2074 at Aomori-Higashi (when it drops its speed to less than 5 KMPH), JR East orders all trains on the Tohoku Shinkansen stopped to clear a path for Hayabusa 60, whose driver Chika Matsumoto (Non) is ordered to pass through all stations and stay above 120 km/h, while keeping the bomb a secret to the passengers. Takaichi is also called and told to inform passengers that they cannot stop at the next station due to technical difficulties. Back in Tokyo, the bomber calls again and demands a ransom of Yen 100 billion from all citizens to Japan in exchange for the lives of those aboard Hayabusa 60. The bomber wants the ransom amount to be crowd-sourced from the public at 1000 Yen per person. Under orders from the government and JR East, Takaichi announces the bomb emergency, causing several passengers to question the staff's inspection procedures while female politician Yuko Kagami (Machiko Ono) uses the situation to restore her tainted reputation. As chief cabinet secretary Suwa (Bando Yajuro) discloses the bomb situation to the public and says the safety of the passengers is the government's priority. But Suwa fails to mention the ransom demand of Yen 100 Billion and that it has to be paid by the public. As a result, the bomber hacks through all networks and streams a ransom video of the bomb being planted, causing panic aboard the train. A problem arises when a southbound train stalls at Morioka due to a bird strike, prompting JR East to switch Hayabusa 60's route to the northbound track. But there was another train coming in the opposite direction on the northbound track. The control center asks the northbound train to increase its speed so it passes the interchange before the Hayabusa 60 reaches there. With dispatcher Yuichi Kasagi's (Takumi Saitoh) calculations, Hayabusa 60 manages to switch tracks but hits the rear car of a northbound train. Onboard, millionaire Influencer Mitsuru Todoroki (Jun Kaname) streams himself and announces an online platform to raise the ransom money, prompting the passengers to share the link and make donations before Kagami confronts him. The government refuses to endorse the website due to their policy of not negotiating with terrorists. Tokyo Metropolitan Police inspector Kawagoe (Kenji Iwaya) and his team identify the crisis as a copycat of the Hikari 109 incident from 1975. On the train, two Live-Streamers approach Masayoshi Goto (Satoru Matsuo), the former owner of Goto Tours, and demand he apologize for one of his helicopters crashing at an elementary school, triggering a fight between them before Goto is knocked unconscious. Kasagi informs Takaichi that a rescue plan is underway. The plan is to decouple the last 2 cars from the Hayabusa 60 and then attach a rescue train from the rear to rescue all passengers. A parallel train 9012B pull alongside the Hayabusa 60, and matches the speed. Then equipment is transferred from the 9012B to the Hayabusa 60. After receiving equipment from supply train 9012B and evacuating the passengers to the front cars, the Hayabusa 60 crew coordinates with the Shinkansen Rolling Stock Maintenance Center in Rifu in uncoupling the two rear cars so that a rescue train can catch up with Hayabusa 60 and evacuate the passengers via a temporary bridge. They successfully disconnect the cars, which explode, however, they suspect more bombs are aboard the train. Rescue train 9014B arrives and the crew evacuate the passengers to it, but a student named Yuzuki Onodera (Hana Toyoshima) has gone missing and Goto goes on a suicidal rampage. Just as Kagami calms down Goto, the emergency brake on 9014B suddenly activates, destroying the bridge. Matsumoto slams the brakes just above 100 km/h, causing 9014B to collide and separate with the train and assistant manager Fujii (Kanata Hosoda) to be impaled by a metal shard. A total of 340 people are rescued aboard 9014B while nine people - including Takaichi, Fujii, Matsumoto, Kagami, Todoroki, Goto, and Onodera - remain aboard Hayabusa 60. Sasaki (Kentaro Tamura), senior advisor to the Prime Minister, wants to make sure the train does not reach Tokyo as an explosion within the city of Tokyo could be disastrous. Takaichi calls JR East and tells them to connect the Tohoku and Tokaido Shinkansen lines at Tokyo to buy them more time. Onodera calls her father Tsutomu in Hadano and reveals herself as the bomber. After killing her father with a similar bomb, she calls JR East and tells them that in order to defuse the bombs, they must kill her, as a heart monitor in her body is linked to the bombs. While investigating Onodera, Kawagoe learns that Tsutomu was one of the police officers sent to arrest Masaru Koga, one of the Hikari 109 terrorists, but while Koga detonated a suicide bomb, the police branded Tsutomu as a hero, claiming he shot Koga in self-defense and saved the Shinkansen industry. Onodera knew this and never respected her father. With the help of Koga's son Masatoshi, Onodera plotted the bomb threat to destroy the lies surrounding her abusive father, including the legacy of the Shinkansen. Onodera also says that society did not treat her fairly, and she planted the bombs to turn people against each other, to expose their base instincts and their true nature of self-preservation over everything else. When Fujii's condition reaches critical from massive blood loss and JR East is ordered by the government to stop the rail extension, Takaichi resists the urge to strangle Onodera. He hugs her instead. The police learn from Masatoshi that the remaining bombs are on cars 1, 4, and 6. Masatoshi says that Onodera targeted a Shinkansen as they represented the hatred she had for her father. Tsutomu physically abused Onodera and says that he always wanted a son. Onodera wanted to destroy her father's pride, which came from the fantasy that he shot Koda in the 109 case. Kasagi devises a plan to divert the front six cars onto a branch where they can safely explode while using timed switching of tracks to uncouple the final two cars 7 and 8, which will come to a stop on the main line. Matsumoto leaves her post and joins the remaining passengers and crew in car 8, where they strap themselves in and use luggage as makeshift padding. Hayabusa 60 reaches the uncoupling point and cars 7 and 8 are successfully uncoupled while the front six cars slow down and explode. Car 7 derails and is destroyed by car 8, which is finally stopped by a water-filled barrier. Rescue workers rush into car 8 and recover the passengers and crew. Kawagoe apprehends Onodera and reveals that Todoroki's fundraiser reached its Yen 100 billion goal. The other passengers bow to Takaichi before JR workers approach him and congratulate him for his efforts.
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Hayabusa 60 (5060B) is an E5 Series Shinkansen bound from Shin-Aomori to Tokyo, under the supervision of first-line manager Kazuya Takaichi (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi). Shinkansen opened between Tokyo and Osaka in 1964 and was the fastest train in the world and was called the "dream super express". The E5 series reaches a top speed of 320 KMPH.
It connects Tokyo to Hokuto in 4 hours. On board the train are a class of high school students, who also visited the Shinkansen maintenance depot as part of their field trip supervised by teacher Sakura Ichikawa (Suzuka Ohgo). Fuji is the new assistant train manager.
At the control room, Chiba is the head of train dispatch and Nagano is the Morioka transport dispatcher. Shortly after the train's departure, an anonymous caller contacts the JR East headquarters in Tokyo, saying they have planted a bomb on the train that will explode if it slows down below 100 km/h. Shinnosuke Yoshimura (Keisuke Hoashi) is the general manager of JR East HQ.
After the bomber proves their claim with the destruction of freight train 2074 at Aomori-Higashi (when it drops its speed to less than 5 KMPH), JR East orders all trains on the Tohoku Shinkansen stopped to clear a path for Hayabusa 60, whose driver Chika Matsumoto (Non) is ordered to pass through all stations and stay above 120 km/h, while keeping the bomb a secret to the passengers. Takaichi is also called and told to inform passengers that they cannot stop at the next station due to technical difficulties. Back in Tokyo, the bomber calls again and demands a ransom of Yen 100 billion from all citizens to Japan in exchange for the lives of those aboard Hayabusa 60.
The bomber wants the ransom amount to be crowd-sourced from the public at 1000 Yen per person. Under orders from the government and JR East, Takaichi announces the bomb emergency, causing several passengers to question the staff's inspection procedures while female politician Yuko Kagami (Machiko Ono) uses the situation to restore her tainted reputation. As chief cabinet secretary Suwa (Bando Yajuro) discloses the bomb situation to the public and says the safety of the passengers is the government's priority.
But Suwa fails to mention the ransom demand of Yen 100 Billion and that it has to be paid by the public. As a result, the bomber hacks through all networks and streams a ransom video of the bomb being planted, causing panic aboard the train. A problem arises when a southbound train stalls at Morioka due to a bird strike, prompting JR East to switch Hayabusa 60's route to the northbound track.
But there was another train coming in the opposite direction on the northbound track. The control center asks the northbound train to increase its speed so it passes the interchange before the Hayabusa 60 reaches there. With dispatcher Yuichi Kasagi's (Takumi Saitoh) calculations, Hayabusa 60 manages to switch tracks but hits the rear car of a northbound train.
Onboard, millionaire Influencer Mitsuru Todoroki (Jun Kaname) streams himself and announces an online platform to raise the ransom money, prompting the passengers to share the link and make donations before Kagami confronts him. The government refuses to endorse the website due to their policy of not negotiating with terrorists. Tokyo Metropolitan Police inspector Kawagoe (Kenji Iwaya) and his team identify the crisis as a copycat of the Hikari 109 incident from 1975.
On the train, two Live-Streamers approach Masayoshi Goto (Satoru Matsuo), the former owner of Goto Tours, and demand he apologize for one of his helicopters crashing at an elementary school, triggering a fight between them before Goto is knocked unconscious. Kasagi informs Takaichi that a rescue plan is underway. The plan is to decouple the last 2 cars from the Hayabusa 60 and then attach a rescue train from the rear to rescue all passengers.
A parallel train 9012B pull alongside the Hayabusa 60, and matches the speed. Then equipment is transferred from the 9012B to the Hayabusa 60. After receiving equipment from supply train 9012B and evacuating the passengers to the front cars, the Hayabusa 60 crew coordinates with the Shinkansen Rolling Stock Maintenance Center in Rifu in uncoupling the two rear cars so that a rescue train can catch up with Hayabusa 60 and evacuate the passengers via a temporary bridge.
They successfully disconnect the cars, which explode, however, they suspect more bombs are aboard the train. Rescue train 9014B arrives and the crew evacuate the passengers to it, but a student named Yuzuki Onodera (Hana Toyoshima) has gone missing and Goto goes on a suicidal rampage. Just as Kagami calms down Goto, the emergency brake on 9014B suddenly activates, destroying the bridge.
Matsumoto slams the brakes just above 100 km/h, causing 9014B to collide and separate with the train and assistant manager Fujii (Kanata Hosoda) to be impaled by a metal shard. A total of 340 people are rescued aboard 9014B while nine people - including Takaichi, Fujii, Matsumoto, Kagami, Todoroki, Goto, and Onodera - remain aboard Hayabusa 60. Sasaki (Kentaro Tamura), senior advisor to the Prime Minister, wants to make sure the train does not reach Tokyo as an explosion within the city of Tokyo could be disastrous.
Takaichi calls JR East and tells them to connect the Tohoku and Tokaido Shinkansen lines at Tokyo to buy them more time. Onodera calls her father Tsutomu in Hadano and reveals herself as the bomber. After killing her father with a similar bomb, she calls JR East and tells them that in order to defuse the bombs, they must kill her, as a heart monitor in her body is linked to the bombs.
While investigating Onodera, Kawagoe learns that Tsutomu was one of the police officers sent to arrest Masaru Koga, one of the Hikari 109 terrorists, but while Koga detonated a suicide bomb, the police branded Tsutomu as a hero, claiming he shot Koga in self-defense and saved the Shinkansen industry. Onodera knew this and never respected her father. With the help of Koga's son Masatoshi, Onodera plotted the bomb threat to destroy the lies surrounding her abusive father, including the legacy of the Shinkansen.
Onodera also says that society did not treat her fairly, and she planted the bombs to turn people against each other, to expose their base instincts and their true nature of self-preservation over everything else. When Fujii's condition reaches critical from massive blood loss and JR East is ordered by the government to stop the rail extension, Takaichi resists the urge to strangle Onodera. He hugs her instead.
The police learn from Masatoshi that the remaining bombs are on cars 1, 4, and 6. Masatoshi says that Onodera targeted a Shinkansen as they represented the hatred she had for her father. Tsutomu physically abused Onodera and says that he always wanted a son.
Onodera wanted to destroy her father's pride, which came from the fantasy that he shot Koda in the 109 case. Kasagi devises a plan to divert the front six cars onto a branch where they can safely explode while using timed switching of tracks to uncouple the final two cars 7 and 8, which will come to a stop on the main line. Matsumoto leaves her post and joins the remaining passengers and crew in car 8, where they strap themselves in and use luggage as makeshift padding.
Hayabusa 60 reaches the uncoupling point and cars 7 and 8 are successfully uncoupled while the front six cars slow down and explode. Car 7 derails and is destroyed by car 8, which is finally stopped by a water-filled barrier. Rescue workers rush into car 8 and recover the passengers and crew.
Kawagoe apprehends Onodera and reveals that Todoroki's fundraiser reached its Yen 100 billion goal. The other passengers bow to Takaichi before JR workers approach him and congratulate him for his efforts..