Halloween season brings opportunity to Hollywood amid production slowdown 02:35. It's usually a serene two-and-a-half-hour ride on Japan's famously efficient bullet train.

A unique horror experience unfolded on Japan’s Shinkansen bullet train with passengers facing off against live-action zombies. The two-hour journey from Tokyo to Osaka included blood, chainsaws ...

Going for gold at Japan's World Cosplay Summit. Teams from 36 countries and regions faced off in central Japan on Saturday, having faithfully recreated the elaborate outfits, ...

Transformative hobby: Going for gold at Japan's World Cosplay Summit. The judge and last year's winner, Lettie Shiels, sits in the dressing room during the World Cosplay Summit in Nagoya on Saturday.

Cosplay – which stands for “costume” and “play” – has undergone a commercial explosion. The Japanese sub-culture attracted hundreds of thousands of new fans during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Many aboard the zombie-infested train said the experience alone was worth the ticket price of up to 50,000 yen ($335). "It was very immersive," Naohiko Nozawa, 30, told AFP.

TOKYO -- It's usually a serene two-and-a-half-hour ride on Japan's famously efficient bullet train. But the journey quickly descended into a zombie apocalypse, with passengers ...

Video: Japan 'zombie' train spooks passengers ahead of Halloween. Eerie experience was inspired by the hit 2016 South Korean movie 'Train to Busan' Last updated: October 21, 2024 | 15:22. AFP.

Actors perform for passengers during the 'Zombie Shinkansen' event on a bullet train from Tokyo to Osaka, ahead of Halloween on October 19, 2024.