Bullet Train is the story of the unlucky assassin Ladybug [Brad Pitt] tasked with a job that gets more and more complicated as other operatives get involved. We spoke with costume designer Sarah Evelyn about her process on the film, and especially what it’s like working on a project with such a veteran cast.

At the beginning of the period of samurai culture in Japan that would influence everything from animation to spaghetti westerns, a lone Englishman aboard a derelict Dutch privateer ship landed in Izu and became enmeshed in the intrigue that would usher in the Edo Shogunate. The real-life Tokugawa engaged in a deadly game of wits for a kingdom without a crown in a court without a throne. In 1979 James Clavell published a fictionalized version of that historical period with names changed and a 1980s miniseries adaptation of his novel captured a global audience and garnered the highest Nielsen rating to date for NBC.