with a mission to fundamentally streamline the acquisition process of Japanese rights. Terada and Saegusa believe that fundamental differences in the way Japan and the West handle literary copyrights has prevented contemporary Japanese storytelling from having the global reach that is warranted by its diversity and high quality. But like countless other works of inventive Japanese fiction, the novel is unknown in the West it had sat untranslated, unread and un-optioned for nearly a decade. studios typically look for in bankable source material: indelible characters, a thrilling premise (hitmen and assassins aboard a train hurtling through Tokyo), and a relentlessly twisty plot.
Published in Japan to bestselling success in 2010, the book has all of the elements that U.S. Produced by Sony, Bullet Train will be a big-budget adaptation of Japanese author Kotaro Isaka’s novel Maria Beetle.
When Brad Pitt signed on in August to star in director David Leitch’s upcoming action thriller Bullet Train, it gave Yuma Terada and Ryosuke Saegusa, co-founders of startup Japanese artist management firm CTB Inc, a burst of high-profile visibility for their unconventional business model.
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