Brad Pitt carries on with Bullet Train event in Tokyo as star battles Jolie abuse claims

Brad Pitt prayed as part of a Buddhist ritual as part of a press event for his new movie Bullet Train on Monday,

Brad, 58, and his co-star Aaron Taylor-Johnson, 32, prayed for success for their movie at Koyasan Tokyo Betsuin Temple in Tokyo, Japan with the pair taking part in the Yakuyoke purification ritual at the temple.

The latest stop in Brad’s worldwide press tour comes days after bombshell claims from the FBI about his ‘mid-air fight’ with his ex wife Angelina Jolie, ahead of their divorce.

Pitt cut a casual figure at the holy site on Monday, wearing a beige zip-up bomber jacket while talking to the press.

The blue-piped jacket was paired with a salmon crew-neck t-shirt and matching casual beige tracksuit bottoms.

He completed the comfy look with a pair of casual low-rise white trainers.

In his new movie Bullet Train, Pitt stars as an assassin known as Ladybug, who is trying to leave his deadly world behind when he’s coaxed into one last job by his handler Maria Beetle (Sandra Bullock).

The film, which releases in September in Japan, is based on an obscure 2010 novel by Kotaro Isaka, and has scored only 54 percent on review-aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes.

The Oscar winner showed no signs of distraction on Monday after a leaked FBI report offered further details regarding his behaviour during a well documented mid-air row with ex-wife Angelina Jolie.

The report released last week alleges he told Jolie, 47, one of her adopted children ‘looked like a f**king Columbine kid’ and said she was ‘ruining the family’ during a furious row aboard their private jet.

The leaked document claims that Pitt clashed with Jolie’s son Maddox during an allegedly drunken rage that turned into a ‘verbal and physical fight’ between the A-list actors.

Jolie also filed images showing bruising to her hand and elbow to the FBI as part of an investigation into the couple’s ‘verbal and physical fight’ while travelling from France to Los Angeles on September 14, 2016.

Jolie claims while Pitt was in a chokehold, he threw his body back, causing Jolie to slam into chairs behind them, according to FBI documents which have yet to be publicly released but were obtained by several news outlets.

The actress claims she suffered injuries to her back and elbow as well as a ‘rug-burn type wound’ on her hand as a result.

Black-and-white images, which were included in the FBI report, show bruising to Jolie’s hand and elbow, reports Page Six.

Meanwhile, the bureau’s findings, which have not been released in full, suggested he made multiple menaces to her and their six children while onboard the flight from France to LAX on September 14, 2016.

It was the same flight where Jolie allegedly sustained injuries from a physical altercation and gave an agent ‘a photo of her elbow in an attempt to corroborate this.’ Pitt denies all of his ex-wife’s claims.

Pitt’s alleged comment appeared to be in reference to the Columbine High School massacre in 1999, which saw 12th grade students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold murder 12 children and a teacher in Colorado.

Maleficent actress Jolie requested the release of the FBI documents under the anonymous ‘Jane Doe,’ after submitting a Freedom of Information Act request in April.

Four days later, on September 19, Jolie filed for divorce from The Moneyball actor. The former couple, who had been married for almost five years, have since been embroiled in a custody battle over their children.

In its final report on the investigation, the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services concluded that Pitt, who has previously admitted to problems with alcohol, did not physically abuse any of his children. Pitt was also cleared by the FBI of any wrongdoing.

Jolie said there had been ‘tension’ between her and her ex-husband, adding that Pitt’s actions on the private aircraft in 2016 had made her feel ‘like a hostage’ onboard, the FBI report, seen by NBC, further reveals.

The filing alleges the woman’s children have ‘experienced lasting physical and mental trauma’ after being ‘verbally and physically’ assaulted by her then-husband while flying on a private plane.

It also alleges Jane Doe has filed numerous requests for a copy of the department’s investigative file in hopes of ‘better understanding the FBI’s investigation and obtaining information necessary for her children to receive medical care and trauma counseling.’

Pitt and Jolie became a couple in 2005 when he infamously left his first wife Jennifer Aniston for her in a scandal that riveted the world.

They waited nearly a decade before they tied the knot in 2014 at the Chateau Miraval in France – the site of the winery they are locked in a court battle over at present.

Although they became legally single in 2019, their custody battle has raged on.

In Pitt’s newest film, his character’s mission is to board a bullet train from Tokyo to Kyoto and retrieve a briefcase, though he soon learns there are other assassins on board with the same objective.

Taylor-Johnson plays plays Tangerine, who’s one half of an assassin duo known as The Twins.

The film also boasts Joey King, Brian Tyree Henry, Michael Shannon, Bad Bunny, Zazie Beetz, Masi Oka, Andrew Koji and Hiroyuki Sanada among the cast.