🚄96 Minutes (2025) – Taiwan’s High-Speed Rail Disaster Thriller

The clock is ticking, the train won’t stop, and every second matters. 🎬 96 Minutes is a Taiwanese disaster action thriller that brings explosive suspense to the big screen, becoming the first Taiwanese film to focus on the Taiwan High-Speed Rail. Directed by Hong Zixuan (The Outlaws) and produced by Zou Jiezhong, the film hurtles audiences into a heart-pounding ride where love, redemption, and survival hang in the balance.

💣 Plot: A Race Against Time

A tragic bombing once shocked Taiwan, leaving families shattered and bomb disposal expert Song Kangren (Lin Bohong) broken. Retiring from the frontlines, he tries to rebuild his life with fiancée Huang Xin (Song Yunhua), a detective.

But fate isn’t done with him. Three years later, as they board a high-speed rail train from Taipei to Kaohsiung, a chilling message arrives: there’s a bomb onboard.

Also on the train is Liu Kai (Wang Bojie), a physics teacher desperate to save his crumbling marriage with Yang Tingjuan (Yao Yiti). Among the passengers are grieving families of past victims, businessmen, young lovers, and ordinary travelers — all caught in a 96-minute race for survival.

As the train thunders southward, Kangren must battle both the bomb and the ghosts of his past. Can he defuse the ticking device, save his fellow passengers, and confront the secrets he’s been running from?

“Betrayal can cut deeper than any explosion… but hope is the last thing to die.”

🌟 Cast & Characters

• Lin Bohong as Song Kangren – the haunted bomb disposal expert

• Song Yunhua as Huang Xin – detective and Kangren’s fiancée

• Wang Bojie as Liu Kai – disgraced physics tutor seeking redemption

• Yao Yiti as Yang Tingjuan – Liu Kai’s estranged wife

• Li Liren as Li Jie – former boss turned harbinger of danger

• Li Mingzhong as Wu Changren

• Supporting cast: Tsai Fan-xi, Zheng Zhiwei, Huang Qibin, Wu Jianhe, Lu Xuefeng, Kong Lingyuan, Lin Yunxi, Gu Chengyi, Ye Jinghan

Every character is trapped in this rolling time bomb, their stories interwoven in a tense, human drama of survival.

🎬 Genre & Themes

• Disaster Action Thriller – relentless pacing and explosive set pieces

• Crime & Redemption – the shadow of past failures returns

• Romantic Tension – love tested under impossible odds

• Survival Drama – ordinary lives pushed into extraordinary peril

With echoes of classics like Speed and Train to Busan, 96 Minutes blends spectacle with emotion, anchoring the chaos in raw human struggles.

🕰️ Why 96 Minutes Stands Out

1. Taiwan’s First High-Speed Rail Disaster Film – a bold cinematic first for the nation.

2. Character-Driven Suspense – beyond explosions, it’s about fractured relationships and personal redemption.

3. Real-Time Urgency – the train ride lasts 96 minutes… and so does the ticking clock.

Director Hong Zixuan crafts a tense, claustrophobic setting where danger comes not only from the bomb, but from human secrets that threaten to derail everything.

🔥 Final Word

With its gripping premise, emotional depth, and relentless countdown suspense, 96 Minutes promises to be a defining disaster action film of 2025. Lin Bohong leads a stellar cast through a cinematic pressure cooker where survival is uncertain and every second counts.

🚄 When the rails are shaking and the clock is running out, will courage or fear win the day?

⭐ 96 Minutes hits theaters in 2025 — get ready for Taiwan’s most explosive cinematic ride yet.