Inception

[bikkuri bahn]

Just saw the movie "Inception" at the local movie theater.  Good flick and, notably, some Japan scenes, including Shinkansen.  First, a scene of a 500 series and another shinkansen train passing each other on the main line.  An on-train interior scene, but I suspect this is a Hollywood set, it's a compartment (btw it has to be a compartment for the scene to work, you'll understand when you see the movie) with a side corridor, euro style.  Finally an aerial shot from a helicopter of what appears to be a 700 series crossing the Fuji River in Shizuoka Prefecture.  You can see the smokestacks of Fuji City on the horizon. Here is a video of the bridge that was filmed (the Fuji River Bridge):

 

[quinntopia]

Hey Bikkuri, I just saw this movie tonight myself, and that brief scene was one of the highlights for me (which, despite the many visual treats in this movie, for folks on this forum it would be no surprise!)!

 

An on-train interior scene, but I suspect this is a Hollywood set, it's a compartment

 

LOL...that surprised me!  But the really wide corridor outside their compartment should have been the tip off for me!

[CaptOblivious]

Finally saw this movie last night. It was a fun movie. This is the kind of movie that provokes discussion, that leaves you, and your fellow movie-goers, with tons of interesting questions. Questions like: How could the script-writer be so stupid as to be so confused about how gravity and our inner-ear works that they clearly understand that falling is phenomenologically identical to zero-gravity, yet they apparently believe, in flat contradiction, that floating in zero-gravity has a different effect on our inner ear than does falling? P and not-P? Seriously? I found the script and plot a generally disappointing treatment of an otherwise great concept. Maybe I just need to go deeper.

 

But, hey, it's a movie that uses trains as a metaphor throughout, and that's kinda cool! And it's got a 500 and is that a 700? In the opening half-hour, too! And like I said, it was fun, so long as you don't scratch the surface (as the movie so enticingly invites you to do). So. Yeah.

[Martijn Meerts]

Hollywood movies aren't meant to have their surface scratched ;)

[stevenh]

Don't some of the older green cars have compartments? I thought it 'may' have been a real shinkansen car.

 

Also, they say they were in Kyoto at the start, or was that Tokyo... but the pictures are of the other city to what they say... If I remember correctly.

[westfalen]

An on-train interior scene, but I suspect this is a Hollywood set, it's a compartment (btw it has to be a compartment for the scene to work, you'll understand when you see the movie) with a side corridor, euro style.

This reminds me of a James Bond movie, "Live and Let Die" I think, where 007 and his girlfriend are heading north on a train from Florida and the sleeping compartment they are in has European style drop-down opening widows so the villain can be thrown from the train after Bond roughs him up a bit. Movie makers never let realism get in the way of the storyline, especially when railways are involved.

[Darklighter]

And it's got a 500 and is that a 700?

 

And a badass SD70 (I guess). I watched the Blu-ray tonight - fantastic movie, though quite confusing.

[CaptOblivious]

And it's got a 500 and is that a 700?

 

And a badass SD70 (I guess). I watched the Blu-ray tonight - fantastic movie, though quite confusing.

 

Is that the one doing the street running? ;)