Documentary series · BBC Two
Great Japanese Railway Journeys
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
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TV DNA
How Great Japanese Railway Journeys actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Great Japanese Railway Journeys reads strongest on Character Depth, Bingeability and Cliffhanger Intensity.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The story
What it's about
Michael Portillo is in Japan for a breathtaking railway journey through the country that launched the magnificent Shinkansen bullet train.
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Alison KrepsExecutive Producer
- John ComerfordExecutive Producer
Direction
- Ben RowlandDirector
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